# In which Rick Santorum gets pitted AGAIN! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748 "2005-09-27T22:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/1 "2005-09-27T22:26:08Z")
What a fucking hack. This slimeball should have no credibility of any sort remaining with anyone. [Slate Article](http://slate.msn.com/id/2127010/) I’m aware that hes not the only pork-loving politician. But his past as being particularly worthy of scorn and derision makes his transgressions more noticable. And this is _just plain stupid_. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/2 "2005-09-27T22:33:29Z")
What a crock. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/3 "2005-09-27T23:16:11Z")
Well, you do gotta feel bad for the guy. I mean, since gays started getting married in this country, his marriage must be on the rocks these days. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/4 "2005-09-27T23:21:42Z")
I’m so embarrassed to be from this state. At least this little episode isn’t as insidious as most involving Sanitorium. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/5 "2005-09-27T23:23:31Z")
Well, as big a prick as Santorum is, I doubt he’s to blame for the URL sneakery. Or this is just to smack him around more for him previously trying to delay national weather service forecasts to the public, as if we didn’t already pay for it with our taxes? I’m all for that. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/6 "2005-09-28T00:03:57Z")
Well, at least he’s [in favor of much needed reforms](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05249/566686.stm) to punish people who can’t leave storm areas. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/7 "2005-09-28T00:08:36Z")
Get with it, **Sampiro**. I Pitted him for that nearly a month ago! 😉 He’s also been on about the National Weather Service for a while now, even trying to claim they didn’t give adequate warning about hurricane Katrina. Don’t worry, guys. When election day rolls around, you know who I won’t be voting for even, I swear, if the alternative is Lyndon LaRouche! CJ ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/8 "2005-09-28T00:16:30Z")
He’s all in favor of kicking people when they are down, but flipflops and quibbles when people call him on it. A sure sign that he has no balls. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05249/566686.stm](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05249/566686.stm) Here is the first “statement” that was the center of some controversy: > [@Santorum](#): > > “I mean, you have people who don’t heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.” Here is the FlipFlop: > [@Santorum](#): > > “Obviously most of the people here in this case, an overwhelming majority of people just literally couldn’t have gotten out on their own,” he said. “Many didn’t have cars … And that really was a failure on the part of local officials in not making transportation available to get people out.” Now Santorum has been cozy with Accuweather for quite a while now, and has been trying for quite a while to “steer” more business to them. He has also been saying “bad things” about the National Weather Service. Funny though, the Nat’l was right about Katrina, and Accuweather was “not so good”. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/9 "2005-09-28T00:20:04Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Now Santorum has been cozy with Accuweather for quite a while now, and has been trying for quite a while to “steer” more business to them. He has also been saying “bad things” about the National Weather Service. Funny though, the Nat’l was right about Katrina, and Accuweather was “not so good”. What’s the surprise, the National Weather Service is prohibited from giving campaign bribes, oops, contributions. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/10 "2005-09-28T00:30:44Z")
He made me sick when he was on _The Daily Show_ (where Stewart was incredibly nice to him) talking about the role of government in promoting virtue and being virtuous examples and virtuous education and virtuous legislation, as if he expected a cigar smoking duck with a sign that said “Virtuous” to drop down any second. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE, PROVIDE DEFENSE AND ADMIN… oh to hell with it. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/11 "2005-09-28T00:39:39Z")
Be patient, Grasshoppers of PA. Strategic Vision Poll, Sept 10-12, 2005 Casey 52% Santorum 28% Other 3% Undecided 7% Same poll: Would you like to see Senator Rick Santorum run for President in 2008? Yes 9% No 56% Undecided 35% More…from _Newsmax_ 7/13/05 (LiveAid day, incidentally): > [@](#): > > The Quinnipiac University poll of 1,639 Pennsylvania voters showed Casey, the state treasurer, leading the second-term senator 50 percent to 39 percent - reflecting a tightening from Casey’s 49-35 percent lead in an April survey by the same pollster. So this may well be a problem that takes care of itself. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/12 "2005-09-28T00:49:03Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Be patient, Grasshoppers of PA. > > Strategic Vision Poll, Sept 10-12, 2005 > > Same poll: > > Would you like to see Senator Rick Santorum run for President in 2008? > > Yes 9% > No 56% > Undecided 35% > \ You are not quaking in your boots that 35% are undecided regarding a Santorum run for the leader of the free world. OK, maybe “Undecided” meant that when asked the person burst into fits of laughter and was unable to respond. I’d be cool with that. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/13 "2005-09-28T00:54:52Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Well, as big a prick as Santorum is, I doubt he’s to blame for the URL sneakery. > > Or this is just to smack him around more for him previously trying to delay national weather service forecasts to the public, as if we didn’t already pay for it with our taxes? I’m all for that. Pretty much just to smack him around. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/14 "2005-09-28T01:24:54Z")
> [@Slate](#): > > AccuWeather is located in Santorum’s home state, and its employees have shoveled at least $7,000 in Santorum’s general direction, according to Maeve Reston in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. $7k? Dat’s all? This oozebag’s sells himself cheap- take a collection outside the next Flyers game, scrape up a nice even $9,000 and outbid AccuWeather for the whore. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/15 "2005-09-28T01:28:36Z")
> [@Annie](#): > > $7k? Dat’s all? This oozebag’s sells himself cheap- take a collection outside the next Flyers game, scrape up a nice even $9,000 and outbid AccuWeather for the whore. I’d rather use the money to buy him a transvestite prostitute. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/16 "2005-09-28T01:31:19Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > I’d rather use the money to buy him a transvestite prostitute. Just make sure you get pictures. As little as I think of the man, I’d pay money to see those. 😃 Robin ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/17 "2005-09-28T01:41:33Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > I’d rather use the money to buy him a transvestite prostitute. Yeah, well, these decisions are made at the local level. 😃 > [@MsRobyn](#): > > Just make sure you get pictures. As little as I think of the man, I’d pay money to see those. Video, I hope. If we don’t have motion pictures of the, err, santorum in motion, we’d just have to listen to the git going on Larry King claiming “I was just trying to witness the Word of Christ to her,him, SHIM!.” ---
**Author:** ![Iacob\_Matthew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Iacob\_Matthew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iacob_Matthew)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/18 "2005-09-28T01:53:47Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > He’s all in favor of kicking people when they are down, but flipflops and quibbles when people call him on it. A sure sign that he has no balls. … I always thought Santorum held no positions other than “no sex in any situation.” I’ve often said that he did this by opposing both sides on every other issue, and then supporting whatever he’s told to. I hate it when I’m right about politics, and I’m very happy that it’s an extremely rare situation. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/19 "2005-09-28T02:59:41Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Strategic Vision Poll, Sept 10-12, 2005 > > Casey 52% > Santorum 28% > Other 3% > Undecided 7% Praise the Lord!!! An incumbent polling at 28% with only 7% undecided. Sounds like a lock, unless Diebold is counting the votes. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748/20 "2005-09-28T03:08:40Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Pretty much just to smack him around. We need an excuse now? 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-rick-santorum-gets-pitted-again/323748.md?page=2)