Santorum Describes News Coverage of Himself, in New Newspaper Column

[JPZenger]

Just when you thought he had crawled back under a rock on K Street. Ricky Sphintorum is back, writing a new regular column for the Phila. Inquirer - the largest paper in PA. The announcement was greeted with a number of letters to the editor that basically said: We defeated this guy in a landslide. What makes you think we want to read anything he has to say?

In the column, Santorum neglected to mention any of the media quotes involving man on dog sex or the new widely accepted definition of Santorum (if there are no children in the room, google "santorum" with "definition").

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/11104422.html

Here's excerpts of his first column:

"Rare welcome to a red-blooded conservative

.. odd was one of the nicer terms used in The Inquirer to describe me. Imagine these words next to your name in your high school yearbook - disingenuous, snake oil peddler, smug, arrogant, chicken-livered, intolerant and fatalistic. And most of those labels were in news stories. My new employer also claimed not so long ago that I "inspire contempt" and "have lost my mind" and that my actions bore a remarkable resemblance to Joe McCarthy's...

Judging from the flood of letters to the paper that followed the announcement, most believe it was a pure business decision to attract more readers. I see: Bring on a writer who got less than 20 percent of the city vote and about 40 percent of the suburban vote in 2006 to expand readership. Shrewd.

...my column ... reflects the hope that I can give voice to the thousands of people who either read this section of the paper only as a source of enemy intel or don't read it because it is bad for their blood pressure. I also hope that my voice will not be as predictable as some regular readers may think. It may surprise you on occasion, as the few dozen of you who have read my book It Takes a Family ..., that I don't always fit the mold. ... I have heard for years that Americans are disgusted with the polarization of politics."

[TwilightGardener]

1. 100 uses for Santorum's newspaper column...I'll start:

1) Kindling for your cozy fall fires
2) Streak-free glass wipe
3) Dog-poop pickup
4) Draft reducer--wad tightly and stuff into crevices
5) Gift-wrap for your Republican relatives

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. You of course mean Santorum as in:

"the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."