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demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 09:14 AM Mar 2012

pRick Santorum has an issue with Pink Bowling Balls. Friends don't let friends use pink balls he say

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/28/santorum-tells-young-man-not-to-use-pink-bowling-ball-on-camera/

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday told a young man not to use a pink ball at a bowling alley in Wisconsin.

“You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera,” he said, according to Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.

“Friends don’t let friends use pink balls,” he added.

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pRick Santorum has an issue with Pink Bowling Balls. Friends don't let friends use pink balls he say (Original Post) demtenjeep Mar 2012 OP
Wassamattah, Ricky? Cirque du So-What Mar 2012 #1
Real men bowl with whatever kind of ball they want. n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #2
Once again, a headline I'd assumed was from The Onion, is in fact, real. abq e streeter Mar 2012 #3
Here, Rick, use this one... FailureToCommunicate Mar 2012 #4
he could have made a huge issue FOR breast cancer demtenjeep Mar 2012 #5
Yup sakabatou Mar 2012 #8
Heh. The homophobia snowball. sofa king Mar 2012 #6
so I should see tons of photoshopped photos demtenjeep Mar 2012 #7
I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it... sofa king Mar 2012 #11
What a man insecure with his masculinity. The irony is he is SWTORFanatic Mar 2012 #9
he could have come out smelling like roses had he turned it into support for Breast Cancer demtenjeep Mar 2012 #10

abq e streeter

(7,658 posts)
3. Once again, a headline I'd assumed was from The Onion, is in fact, real.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 09:24 AM
Mar 2012

it's just getting harder and harder to tell.

 

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
5. he could have made a huge issue FOR breast cancer
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 10:11 AM
Mar 2012

instead he is just content to let his homophobia shine

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
6. Heh. The homophobia snowball.
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 10:13 AM
Mar 2012

Now that the Santorum team has cornered the gay-hate market, they have to police every photo op to make sure Comedy Central can't hoist them by their own petard... or petar, as Shakespeare would have pruriently but much more appropriately spelled it.

That of course is a diversion of steadily dwindling resources for the Santorum campaign. Spending time, money, thought and effort on protecting themselves from the fallout of their own execrable positions is a great way to lose an election.

Now that it is known that the Santorum campaign fears such a thing, it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to smear Rick with the pink brush at every opportunity. Which will be fun to see.

This is why candidates usually do not venture into acting as vilely as Rick Santorum has chosen to act.


sofa king

(10,857 posts)
11. I'm sure I'm not the first to think of it...
Sat Mar 31, 2012, 10:05 AM
Mar 2012

... but yes, it won't take long for people to individually realize they can screw Rick's campaign simply by positioning one's self and then waving a pink handkerchief for the cameras--or a confederate's phone.

I expect it would be as easy to create an unorganized movement to "pink" Santorum as it was for the Lynndies to create an Internet cliche virtually overnight.

It's too easy to do, almost impossible to stop, will be a tail-chasing drag on Santorum's resources, and it will harm him further when it emerges that his goons are frisking photo-op crowds not only for weapons, but for a particular color.

 

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
10. he could have come out smelling like roses had he turned it into support for Breast Cancer
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 06:29 PM
Mar 2012

instead, he came out smelling like the "bullshit" he is!


I can not believe he has come this far in his presidential bid

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