# Rick Sancornum vs Mitt Hominey **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 1, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518 "2012-04-01T22:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/1 "2012-04-01T22:48:46Z")
Who has the public’s ear? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/2 "2012-04-01T22:53:23Z")
The conjunction of the words “corn” and the 2nd definition for “santorum” make me want to puke. You know corn doesn’t digest well. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/3 "2012-04-01T22:57:26Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > The conjunction of the words “corn” and the 2nd definition for “santorum” make me want to puke. You know corn doesn’t digest well. Ah, the oft-mentioned “kernel of truth”. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/4 "2012-04-01T22:58:04Z")
I think a lot of Republicorns will lap Sancornum up like syrup. Hominey is just so bland. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/5 "2012-04-01T23:03:00Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I think a lot of Republicorns will lap Sancornum up like syrup. > > Hominey is just so bland. But he has a lot of grit, you must admitt. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/6 "2012-04-01T23:05:48Z")
Rick Sancornum wants to ban cornography. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/7 "2012-04-01T23:19:44Z")
I predict Hominey will draw support from Gingrits. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/8 "2012-04-01T23:21:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Rick Sancornum wants to ban cornography. Open up! It’s the cobs! What a cornucopia of puns… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/9 "2012-04-01T23:21:54Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I predict Hominey will draw support from Gingrits. They both seem to appeal to the aw-shucks crowd.\* And well-played, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/10 "2012-04-02T00:14:09Z")
I’m surprised Mike Shuckabee isn’t running this year. Maybe he’s hoping for the VP slot? > [@](#): > > Rick Sancornum wants to ban cornography. Yeah, he’s not big on smut. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/11 "2012-04-02T00:34:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m surprised Mike Shuckabee isn’t running this year. Maybe he’s hoping for the VP slot? > > Yeah, he’s not big on smut. What about Jeb Bushel? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/12 "2012-04-02T02:25:20Z")
I really think Hominey has the best chance, this ear, of finding his way through the maize of Republicorn politics to reap the picktory. The cornvention will just be the usual cornonation. Unless Sancornum still has a few surprises to pop. It’s a smutty process, but it’s still a good middle row between the extremes of cob rule and absolute cornarchy. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/13 "2012-04-02T02:34:13Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I really think Hominey has the best chance, this ear, of finding his way through the maize of Republicorn politics to reap the picktory. The cornvention will just be the usual cornonation. Unless Sancornum still has a few surprises to pop. It’s a smutty process, but it’s still a good middle row between the extremes of cob rule and absolute cornarchy. 👏 That was… incredible. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/14 "2012-04-02T02:38:23Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I really think Hominey has the best chance, this ear, of finding his way through the maize of Republicorn politics to reap the picktory. The cornvention will just be the usual cornonation. Unless Sancornum still has a few surprises to pop. It’s a smutty process, but it’s still a good middle row between the extremes of cob rule and absolute cornarchy. Let’s go to the cornfield and throw stuff in there! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/15 "2012-04-02T03:13:31Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Let’s go to the cornfield and throw stuff in there! Gahhhh! Okay, I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/16 "2012-04-02T05:50:40Z")
Throw the quarry into the cornfield! It is still 4/1 in my time zone… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/17 "2012-04-02T19:03:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Who has the public’s ear? Or can make a silk purse out of it? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/18 "2012-04-02T20:38:37Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Throw the quarry into the cornfield! > > It is still 4/1 in my time zone… Sorry, the quarry went down the cornhole . . . ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rick-sancornum-vs-mitt-hominey/617518/19 "2012-04-02T21:23:24Z")
And it’s a _good_ thing it did.