# Insantorum was in my neighborhood **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057 "2012-02-26T15:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/1 "2012-02-26T15:07:36Z")
Yeah. Just yesterday. No, I did not attend. > **[Rick Santorum brings national spotlight to Hixson with campaign speech at...](https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/feb/26/rick-santorum-brings-national-spotlight-hixson-cam/?news)** > > If you saw Rick Santorum on CNN or Fox News on Saturday, the backdrop likely was Abba's House in Hixson, where the latest Republican presidential front-runner temporarily thrust Chattanooga into the national political spotlight. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/2 "2012-02-26T15:53:21Z")
The most unstoppable force since joementum. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/3 "2012-02-26T16:51:59Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > The most unstoppable force since joementum. Flows right through all barriers… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/4 "2012-02-26T18:03:54Z")
I was there for a couple hours. There were maybe a hundred protesters on the sidewalk outside the church, and there were about one or two dozen self-segregated Ron Paul supporters across the street. Of those that drove by that honked, a small majority seemed supportive, but those that were critical were probably more vocal. The security/police would not let us in the church unless any bit of protest paraphernalia was taken off, even including a yellow bandanna a friend was wearing. Most people there were wearing yellow of some sort, and many were carrying yellow parasols in honor of the women’s suffrage movement’s Golden Lane at the 1916 Democratic National Convention. Here are [some pictures](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.811477131728.2185568.56700112&type=3) from the event. [This one](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=811478109768&set=a.811477131728.2185568.56700112&type=3&theater), of an old woman wearing a nasal cannula while protesting, is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/5 "2012-02-26T18:06:48Z")
I love the “Rick Santorum thinks about gay sex more than gay people think about gay sex” sign. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/6 "2012-02-26T19:53:33Z")
I’m not seeing the debate topic here. Moved to The BBQ Pit from Elections. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/7 "2012-02-26T20:01:00Z")
You don’t schedule a room that is way too big for the number that you expect to show up. Better to have people standing in the aisles, crowding the doorways, straining to see and hear what’s going on inside than to have rows and rows of empty seats. Better to have people bubbling with excitement as they leave, with folks saying things like, “The place was _PACKED!_ We couldn’t even get _IN!_” And make sure your advance people and others keep saying things like, “We had _no idea_ so many people would come!” Buzz buzz buzz…! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/8 "2012-02-26T21:41:17Z")
Progress is being made if it is just Insantorum and not Linsantorum. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/9 "2012-02-26T22:33:11Z")
I now have that Metallica song in my head. \*Insantorium Leave me be Insanatorium Just leave me alone \* ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/10 "2012-02-26T22:38:39Z")
Abba’s house? Did he want them to take a chance on him? Did he talk about the evil of dancing queens? Do you think this might have been his Waterloo? Something about Fenando? ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/11 "2012-02-26T23:54:54Z")
[This is how my hometown welcomed Santorum](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVd0FGIUa6U). Juvenile? Perhaps. But I wish I could have been there to give the guy a high-five. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/12 "2012-02-27T00:28:07Z")
Yeah, Abba’s house. It’s got a statue of Gandalf out front… ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/13 "2012-02-27T00:32:31Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Yeah, Abba’s house. It’s got a statue of Gandalf out front… You’re being generous. Is that not one of the most grotesque statues you’ve ever seen? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/14 "2012-02-27T00:37:25Z")
Utterly absurd, and not in a good way: [http://abbashouse.com/pages/page.asp?page\_id=134791](http://abbashouse.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=134791) Wish this showed the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/15 "2012-02-27T01:33:37Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Abba’s house? > > Did he want them to take a chance on him? > Did he talk about the evil of dancing queens? > Do you think this might have been his Waterloo? > Something about Fenando? Maybe there was something in the air that night. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/16 "2012-02-27T02:31:25Z")
> [@Jasper\_Kent](#): > > You’re being generous. Is that not one of the most grotesque statues you’ve ever seen? It looks like Gandalf molesting a hobbit from what I can see… ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/17 "2012-02-27T10:09:04Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Maybe there was something in the air that night. Nah, that would have made it Phil Collin’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insantorum-was-in-my-neighborhood/614057/18 "2012-02-27T12:24:36Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It looks like Gandalf molesting a hobbit from what I can see… Whatever did happen to Santorum’s crusade against man on midget lovin?