Oh I'm sorry it is not Clark Griswold, it's Rick Santorum! But you do see how easy it is to get them confused, right?
I know what you are thinking. "Oh Gryphen, you are messing with us. That MUST be a parody."
Nope, it's not.
It is the desperate attempt by Rick Santorum to mimic Sarah Palin's "highly successful" political bus tour/family vacation in order to get some national attention. Because dammit, Rick Santorum recognizes a good idea when he sees one!
Gee I wonder if Santorum will "ride a hog" like Sister Sarah did?
But don't worry kids, it will not JUST be about Rick "The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex" Santorum taking his children around and lying to them about American History, he will also be sharing that ignorance with the American people he meets along the way.
Santorum said he’s been criticized for saying earlier this week, “Schools indoctrinate our children.” He added, “I said ‘indoctrination’ and I meant it.”
Rick Santorum speaks earlier Thursday at a restaurant in Rock Rapids.
As an example, he said: “Sixty-two percent of incoming freshmen come into college with a faith conviction and leave without it. … I suspect if you took a control group of kids who don’t go to college, that doesn’t happen.”
“We see this humanism and secularism being pushed on our children,” said Santorum, who, with his wife, Karen, has been home-schooling their seven children through about eighth grade.
That's right folks! Rick Santorum's message to America is "Don't allow your children to become educated. It just makes them too intelligent to buy into your Theocratic bullshit! And THAT is just bad for America!"
(H/T to the Huffington Post.)
I wonder if Romney has any tips about how to strap the kids to the roof of the car?
ReplyDeleteThis jerk is beyond pathetic and just one of the great candidates the GOP is fielding this primary season. Amazingly, his utterings even make Queen Paylin look semi-rational. But, then what would she know about schoolin'? Or the frothin' combo of lube and anal sex?
ReplyDeleteShe should stick to the economy about which she has Nobel-quality knowledge. Paul Krugman: BEWARE!
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteYou need to share the link to make sure it remains number one on Google:
http://spreadingsantorum.com/
Oh no! Will they have their own Aunt Edna and Dinky? One of my favorite movies of all time! Now on to Walley World!
ReplyDeleteRick and the missus may be home schooling those kids NOW, but when he was a PA Senator, he had his PA school district pay for the charter-cyber-schooling of his children while they lived in Virginia!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.factcheck.org/article432.html
The district finally got its money back from the state, but the point is that school districts don't have a lot of discretionary funding to begin with and when slimeballs like Santorum take more than their share, it's wrong.
We couldn't ask for a more illustrative example of the classic fears of republican religious conservatives. As parents, one of our greatest obligations to our children is to expose them to new ideas and critical ways of thinking. Our family is not religious, however, our daughter recently attended and graduated from a church affiliated university (Pacific Lutheran). She thrived in an atmosphere that was different than the one we could provide and emerged as a very well rounded person and a better citizen. If one's convictions are vulnerable to other potentially conflicting ideas, perhaps they need to be re-evaluated.
ReplyDeleteI've got it, all these GOP leaders wear magical God-on-My-side underwear and think that gives them license to run for power over secularists.
ReplyDeleteIf they don't win, they've got a lucrative career in exploiting government subsidy programs, tax loopholes, and the cherry on top - celebrity in the fringe neo-conChristian Right culture. You can run a PAC, work the speaking circuit, be an expert analyst on Fox News, guest or future host of the 700 Club and whatnot.
Cause they are all so awesome and a whiz.
Did anyone else notice the music from the scary movie "The Omen" is playing in the Santorum ad?
ReplyDeleteHilarious choice. Wonder which kid has the "666" tattoo on his scalp?
Unlike Santorum or Heath/Palin's, Griswold was a sympathetic and well meaning individual.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are more like the homeless family driving two ex-Presidents around in their 'home' a station-wagon, giving their kids inaccurate history lessons at every State landmark in My Fellow Americans with James Garner and Jack Lemmon. Great movie, and even though they 'know' history over these yokels, the yokels school them on how their policies hurt their lives.
These men, as former leaders, have the grace to be embarrassed and sorry for the pain they've caused this one American family, but I guarantee Santorum, Bachmann, Gingrich, Palin, or any of the GOP contenders would ever feel remorse at 'hurting people.' It's their M.O.
If you hadn't said so, I would have really thought this was an SNL or MadTV skit. I guess he's trying to be funny? Must be hard being "santorum"...
ReplyDeleteBless his heart.
Oh my. The music reminds me of The Unattended, so he's combining the failed quitler bus tour with the failed quitler movie to achieve . . . success. And since when does it take "courage" to go on road trip with your kids? Hey, if you can't handle 7 kids, don't have them.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of sick f--- talks about frothy mixture etc?? It takes one to know one.To quote the great Bard (no Not Saran Palin) Me thinks he doth protest too much!!!!
ReplyDeleteEighteen-year old college freshmen are not children. They are adults and as such can decide for themselves if they want to follow in their parents' religious footsteps or strike out on their own. Let's wait and see if 62% of his children do the same? What's he going to do then, disown them?
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't so tragic for the Nation, the Adventures of the Horror from Wasilla, would be hilarious comedy. And the other idiots are trying to out-palin, $P?
ReplyDeleteI see Rosanne has just declared herself as a presidential candidate. Even with her multiple personality disorder, she would be a better choice than $P.
Oh yeah, the country needs an out of control menopausal woman to get us through this mess... NOT!
Gryphen, did you HAVE to spell out what 'santorum' actually means (and will always mean, for all time)? Such coarse, vulgar language!!! Is that really necessary?
ReplyDeleteCall me old fashioned but I prefer a more genteel, polite, civilized and sophisticated way of referring to this sad sack of shit, douchebag, rat bastard, fuckwad who couldnt be elected president if he were running unopposed: Rick "Google me!" Santorum.
See, isn't that better?
Why are they trying to catapult us back to the dark ages? An untested and unquestioned faith is immature and turns Jesus into an imaginary BFF.
ReplyDeleteReally Rick? College causes kids to "lose their faith"?
ReplyDeleteI have to ask, faith in what?
If I go into college as a buddhist, and I become a christian, you probably wouldn't complain about that loss of "faith"
Utter hypocrisy, blind allegiance to the christian mythology, and a tip of the hat to christian supremacy and biblical rule for all Rill Amurucuns..
Really Rick? College causes kids to "lose their faith"?
ReplyDeleteI have to ask, faith in what?
If I go into college as a buddhist, and I become a christian, you probably wouldn't complain about that loss of "faith"
Utter hypocrisy, blind allegiance to the christian mythology, and a tip of the hat to christian supremacy and biblical rule for all Rill Amurucuns..
Everything I learned about US History in elementary and high school was more like mythology than history. Dumbed down and presented with no consideration of the possibility that the USA could ever do anything cruel, heartless, or imperialistic. I guess you could call that indocrination of a sort. So if Rick is mostly concerned that the schools are indoctrinating students it's probably because he doesn't think they are being indoctrinated with his version of history.
ReplyDeleteHOLY CRAP! What the hell was that? I cannot believe they actually paid someone to do that stupid clip. I may be mean, but that family looks like the results of inbreeding for decades.
ReplyDeleteI think this music comes from World of Warcraft. I swear it does! Any other wow players out there recognize it?
ReplyDeleteWould you eat free homemade jelly from Santorum?
ReplyDeleteIt makes me think cousin Eddy is running his campaign.
Please! Rick Santorum isn't fit to change any one of Clark Griswold's four threadbare wobbly tires!
ReplyDeleteWell, hey, if Palin can charge her family vacation to her PAC, why shouldn't Santorum? It's the conservative way! (conservative with their own money)
ReplyDeleteSo you get your "control group" that is going into not college, but .... er, what? So we don't know what they are going into for 4 years, but we can measure how many of them didn't lose their faith at the end of it?
ReplyDeleteCan't even trust this fool to teach his own kids math, or statistics.
Ha! I bet a fly on the wall listening to Rick Santorum leading a family prayer would note that it sounds a lot like Clark Griswold's eulogy to Aunt Edna.
ReplyDeleteROFL good one Gryph, but I don't believe you. That video HAS to be fake.
ReplyDeleteHAS to.
Seriously.
That music--
ReplyDeleteThe music is O Fortuna from Carmina Burana (Orff 1937?)
Rick would choose a strong German composer (not an American one), hailing fortune ( needing a cold day in hell for election), that usually scares the s#!t out of everyone.
Yup, that's Rick.
That was quite hysterical, especially with the apocalyptic doom music in the background.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who saw his "logo" & thought "why does that say "Saint Rum"? What a bad design idea.
JFC. Why is is ALWAYS that fear &religious zeal breed this kind of hostility & insanity? No need to actually answer, it truly is a rhetorical question. Wonder what his academic performance was like to so shun the educational system, Good & bad alike.
ReplyDeleteI live in WI & I know the (college flunk-out) governor in Madison is of this ilk. See also this HP story on Texas Prize Rick Perry:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/rick-perry-college-transcript_n_919357.html.
Such feelings of inadequacy must be seemingly successfully masked by this fundamentalist illness.
Sinclair Lewis's quote was never more appropriate than in this election cycle. And his prescience frightens me.
These Republicans just continue to amaze me. What friggin' poopheads.
ReplyDeleteI so dread this upcoming election. My TV will be off except for movies. Cannot imagine their advertising and hate spewing they'll do about President Obama. Just know I'm going to vote for President Obama - can you imagine if the Republicans got back into office? Our poor country.
Yes, everyone please link to . . . .
ReplyDeletehttp://spreadingsantorum.com
Please hit the site often. I'm up to ten times a day.
This will help old Rick out. And since he's a world class bastard--who wouldn't want to help him out?
Is Rick, frothy fecal matter, in it for the money? I CANNOT even fathom a President Rick Santorum!! He's just one creepy dude! That wife of his must be dumber than a box of hair!!
ReplyDeleteYes, for a great giggle, google Santorum. Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteHere's my favorite Santorum story:
ReplyDeleteBack when Rick was a Senator, yea, I know, hard to believe, well anyway the "bogeyman" at that time was those damn, amublance-chasing, frivolous-lawsuit lawyers. So Congress was trying to pass laws to make frivolous lawsuits a thing of the past and Rick was out front leading the charge like any and all the God-fearing Republicans. The thing was, though that Rick and his sweet wife had just won a frivolous lawsuit so in true Repube fashion, IOKIYAR. God I hate that man and his sick family. NOBODY needs to be having 7 kids in this day and age. He's not even smart enough to take care of himself let alone 8 other people.
@9:05, #1 had it right with this piece of pus. These people do this running for President like it's their private ATM machine. Think Christine, I'm-not-really-a-witch, O'Donnell or whatever the hell her name was last year. She paid her mortgage with all the money that she made while running for Congress. I would be embarassed!
I don't have an ear for music, but if the soundtrack is indeed O Fortuna from Carmina Burana as @Anonymous 10:42am informed us, that's the same music that the GOP has used before on apocalyptic ads which Rachel Maddow has ridiculed before (I think it was an web-only ad using 9/11 images that was paid for by the Cheneys). Seems like actual creative people who create political ads aren't stampeding for GOP jobs, so GOP candidates are churning out repetitive cookie cutter parody-like ads.
ReplyDeleteOT. Did you see Andrew Sullivan's "The Better Way" post at 3:02 pm EDT (11:02 am ADT)? It concludes with "By the way, I'm reading a very scarce advance manuscript of The Rogue by Joe McGinniss. All I can say is: pre-order it."
The "Depleted" is dying a SLOW death. Three weeks and here's how it has done... Domestic Total as of Aug. 4, 2011: $113,123
ReplyDeleteWhy do they need TWO mini-vans? Is one for the family and the other is for the "Roadies"? It looks like some of those kids are a little old for a "Family Vacation". I see that Santorum is taking a page from the Palin play book with that family.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably not new but my son ran across it the other day and shared it with me. Something he ran found on the internets. He said, "Science flew us to the moon, and religion flew us into buildings". That pretty much sums it up for me.
ReplyDeleteI gotta tell you, if I was was driving in a car in East St Louis with my "homes", and I saw these two minivans with Rick Santorum and his inbred brood driving along side of me, I'd say, "Roll 'em up"...
ReplyDeleteI'm in a restaurant in the Denver airport waiting for a flight to San Francisco, and as much as I'd like to watch/listen to this, I couldn't do it to my fellow-diners.
No seriously.....this is for REAL? This has to be a joke! No way is that a REAL commercial....hahahahaha. I mean, no way, REALLY???
ReplyDeleteLimbaugh makes fun at Palin LOL
ReplyDelete"You Have To Be A Twit To Tweet, And I'm Not A Twit"
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201108050017
WEll, just from those few seconds of that 'family vacation' tour, I see that they seem to have a special needs child also, too, and they treat him the same $carah did with TriG: Facing AWAY from mom.
ReplyDeleteThat tell me everything I need to know about that douche bag!
Let's just state the obvious. He knows he doesn't have a chance in hell of becoming president, but rent is due! Muster up enough of the gullible religious right's support, and he can live off their political donations for the rest of his life. Thanks to a toothless FEC.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Scarah has been coaching Mrs. S. in how to hold the special needs prop.
ReplyDeleteHi sarah!
ReplyDeleteQuick question.
Whatever happened to Ruffles?
Off topic, but looks like they're "fundamentally transformin'" things over at c4p...and the bots aren't happy! http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/08/how-to-tell-if-youre-serious-enough-for-the-new-c4p.html
ReplyDeleteA froth by any other name would smell as sweet.
ReplyDeleteOh.My.God. That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I'm beginning to think that all conservatives were oxygen deprived at birth.
ReplyDeleteAnd what is the age range of his kids? 27 to 2? Aren't a few of them a little too old to be whining "are we there yet?"
Why doesn't he just borrow The Grifter's bus? Maybe he can spray paint something frothy over the One Nation sign.
Is he making things up again? The only statistic I could find was that 52% of college freshmen went to services and that dropped to 29% by junior year. There are also some anecdotes from supposedly very religious kids who went drank and had sex in college, not because of the college, but because they had no self-control. Colleges don't 'teach' irresponsible behavior...that comes from the upbringing. God won't protect you if you don't want protection.
ReplyDeleteHey if it is O Fortuna, isn't it still under copyright? Sure hope "Frothy" paid his ASCAP fees.
ReplyDeleteLet me phrase this the most diplomatic way I can, and bear with my, my IM friends.
ReplyDeleteIt's the old "badge of honor" that you see among the ultra religious; they wear it proudly like a medal, or a trophy that they got for winning a race.
Yep, I'm talking about the big family, you know, with at LEAST 5 kids, but Santorums really must love god because THEY have 7.
Hmmph, we beat out those Palin types!
That's 2 more brownie points on the ever popular scale of "how righteous we are" because we never heard of family planning or birth control. And they also have a DS child, or so it appears.
Is there a reason you HAVE to get pregnant when you're 44 for Zeus' sakes!? Can't you just produce your 10 kids while the wife is between 23 and 38 or something?
It's just amazing really when you think about it, it's like buying a Lexus or a Caddilac to show off, you know, showing up at a function or church with 7 or 9 or 13 kids! Whispering behind closed hands, "Wow, look at that!"
If you make $1 million per year,
and have an 8 bedroom house, that's cool maybe, but it all plays into
the "we don't believe in birth control" meme, and that's what the religious would like to force you to do if they could.
Proving to the world that you're the most fecund isn't doing much for the planet.
Well, I can at least say this for Rick: I had no idea that he & his wife had a DS child. Perhaps they figure it is their own business; & don't need to continually remind folks how saint-like they are to bear such a "burden". Unlike Ms. Palin, who seems to consider it the main focus of her resume.
ReplyDeleteRick Santorum doth protest too much. Borrowing from Sarah's "Going Rogue" british slang meaning, someone, rightfully so, created the "Spreading Santorum" website defining the meaning of "Santorum".
ReplyDeleteWhy would someone do such a thing?
As Senator from Pennsylvania, he equated homosexuality with beastiality, and stuck to his guns to the bitter end. The Santorums have eight children, one who passed away shortly after birth and is in heaven with Jesus.
But he took a little detour on the trip. Rick and his fecund wife decided to take the deceased baby boy home, introduce him to the other kids, you know, to help them bond and say "bye byes", before a formal viewing, proper christian burial, and frequent exploitation to prove his pro-life creds. His wife included the tale in one of her books.
Spreading Santorum dot com couldn't happen to a more worthy christian homophobic bigot.
Does he allow the missus to drive the second van, or does he have a hitch with chrome bull testicles dangling from it?
WTF? Those are six adults and two kids. Sorry Ricky, but at most you should be hearing "Are We There Yet" from two of the kids, at most. If you are hearing it form the others - THEN YOU ARE A PISS-POOR PARENT who has contributed some really effed up adults to the world.
ReplyDeleteHmm... anybody in a creative mood? Here's the first line "Frothy Teabagger was a Santorum soul..."
Yes, that music IS indeed 'O Fortuna' from Carmina Burana and is often used in movies and television to create an ominous or frightening mood. If I was one of his children, I would be highly insulted at how this ad implies that traveling with me and my siblings must be a horrible experience to be dreaded. Thanks a whole lot, Dad!
ReplyDeleteThis ad looks ridiculous, as if it was made as a joke. Or maybe it was made by a friend of the family with a camera and some video editing software who said, "You don't need to hire no professional for that. I can do that for you myself. Save ya a lot of money, ya know!"
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia, the youngest (Bella) has Trisomy 18. She is about 4 years old, which means she wasn't available for prop work during his last campaign.
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