UNBELIEVABLE: Santorum Visits Rush Limbaugh's Hometown & Compares it to Visiting Mecca

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UNBELIEVABLE: Santorum Visits Rush Limbaugh's Hometown & Compares it to Visiting Mecca

by The Troubadour

This is an instance in which I know I'm going to fail to encapsulating the depth of offensiveness and depravity contained in the below statement made today by Santorum during an appearance in Cape Girardeau.

Standing in a hangar at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, this is what Santorum said (emphasis mine):

"This is my first trip to Cape Girardeau," Santorum told the crowd. "Jo Ann's been bragging on you a long time. It's good to be in the hometown of Rush Limbaugh, which some people see as a trip to Mecca."

I don't care that a lighter-than-expected crowd of only 100 was on hand to hear those words. And I don't care that he was kind with the crowd after speaking, mingling and taking pictures with everyone afterward. In fact, I don't care what else he may have said during the campaign stop – what lies he may have told, how he likely slandered Obama with some nonsensical factoid gone awry.
All I care about is this:

Using the mealy-mouthed "some people see," Rick Santorum compared a visit to Rush Limbaugh's hometown as akin to visiting Mecca.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/11/1073448/-Santorum-Visits-Rush-Limbaugh-s-Hometown-Compares-it-to-Visiting-Mecca

Santorum: Don't Drop Rush from AFN
http://election.democraticunderground.com/1002405399

Updated with video: Rush's 53 Smears Against Sandra Fluke
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002382940

Murkowski 'Stunned' By Rush's 'Incendiary Comments'

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) told TPM on Tuesday that she was "stunned" by Rush Limbaugh's smear of Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.

"There was the incendiary comments made by Rush Limbaugh that I think are just adding to this sense that women's health rights are being attacked," Murkowski said.

"The comments made by Limbaugh, I was just stunned," she added. "In the end, I'm a little bit disappointed that there hasn't been greater condemnation of his words by people in leadership positions."

Including Republicans? "Everybody," she responded. "What he said was just wrong. Just wrong."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/murkowski-stunned-by-rushs-incendiary-comments

[Blue Owl]

1. Santorum just had his Meccaca moment

Way to go, Rick!

[Loudmxr]

5. You beat me to #1. With better writing.

[Loudmxr]

2. Yes!! Sharia Law!! Sharia Law!! no wait Christian Law! Christian Law!

(BTW I am getting to know this icon much too much)

How stupid can these people be??

What he should have said.. and is much more accurate is "I have come to Rome"

[beac]

6. Veni, vici, panderi? n/t

[Loudmxr]

12. It took a while.. I came I saw I pandered

Paraphrased quote from Julies Caesar.

It always bothers me why my Catholic friends don't know Latin. I said the mass in Latin when I was a little alter boy.

[Blue Owl]

10. LOL

Nonsense Loudmxr, your writing is fine by me!

[Loudmxr]

14. Thank you Blue Owl.

You make me happy at your praise.

[beac]

3. You gotta give Little Ricky credit...

he's not afraid to double-down on a disasterous position!

[DefenseLawyer]

4. They don't cotton to no Mecca visitors

in Mizzura. Sure it's good to double down on the otherwise toxic Rush Limbaugh with the crazy base but ixnay on the Muslim pilgrimage references!

[tanyev]

7. And that is why Rush Limbaugh is not comparable to Bill Maher.

Because elected Republicans and party leaders pay obeisance to Limbaugh, no matter what he says or does. Even this last round of hatefulness elicted only a handful of genuine condemnations and several half-hearted condemnations.

[lob1]

8. Visiting Mecca. Santorum must be a secret muslim.

[Blue Owl]

11. Hmm, is Pennsylvania not on the EASTERN side of the country?

You could be onto something...

[Jamaal510]

15. Oh Donald! Orly! Could you take a look at Rick Santorum's birth certificate, please?

[arely staircase]

9. so does that mean he thinks it's good or bad?

you can surely understand my confusion

[exboyfil]

13. Rick Santorum has a list of who he wants to offend

Check for Muslims and a double check for women. Hard to find a way to get a check for both those groups, but he found a way.

Mecca?????? Especially with the firestorm around Rush and what is going on in Afghanistan right now. Tell me this is a joke.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. It IS the Republican Mecca - just like Mecca, every GOPer bows towards Limbaugh several times a day

[Major Nikon]

17. I've been to that airport

I stopped there for fuel because they have a little greasy spoon restaurant on the field and the fuel is cheap. The airport is actually south of town a few miles. More than likely Sanctimonious just stopped at the airport and didn't go into town. It must have made those 100 people feel good to know that he actually had a staff member wiki their town to find out Limpballs was from there. I'm sure they were too daft to realize he was just stopping for cheap fuel and decided to use the 20 minutes or so to pander to the locals while the pump jockeys were filling up his jet. I doubt if he even took the extra time to go into "Mecca".

[DefenseLawyer]

18. Does the Santorum campaign actually have a plane?

Somehow I doubt it.

[Blue Owl]

19. Something like a Cessna

(emphasis on "cess&quot

[Major Nikon]

25. Cessna makes some nice planes

The Citation X is one of the fastest commercial jets in production.

[Major Nikon]

24. Of course they do

It's pretty difficult to be a serious presidential contender without one. I'm sure it's a charter. Even gubernatorial campaigns in big states like California, Texas, and Florida are going to have charter aircraft. It's pretty hard to make all the events they do without one.

[DefenseLawyer]

26. I'm not sure Santorum's campaign can be called "serious" in that respect.

Yes he's had more success than he ever imagined, but he has very little in terms of a ground game anywhere. I would maintain that he doesn't have a "campaign plane" the way Romney does, although he's probably chartering some flights. Surely there is a Santorum campaign troll around here that can set the record straight!

[Major Nikon]

29. I think even Obama charters his campaign plane

As far as I know, they all charter their campaign planes. That keeps the money straight. The difference is Romney probably has a G-V and Santorum probably has a Citation X or smaller.

[Thinkingabout]

20. Oh yes, we pray to God and Rush thinks he is god.

By the way Rush wants to inflict sharia law on women, must be Rush's Mecca

[socialindependocrat]

21. But the man sure knows how to get votes, don't he??!!

Tell a child that he can't have something and he wants it all the more.

What in the heck was he doing there in the first place?

[Initech]

22. Holy shit!!!! Just when I thought the bar couldn't be lowered any further

They keep plunging to new depths.

[Major Hogwash]

23. What the hell is Santorum smoking??

I'm totally willing to put a microphone in front of Little Ricky from now until November 6th to hear more gems like this!!

[lunasun]

27. It would be blasphemy to these folks to compare it to 'the holy land' or

Jerusalem . So I think it was intentional, and scum like him have no problem with irreverence towards another religion- just not their own cuz thats how they are !

[Old and In the Way]

28. I love it when idiots go off script.

That's a real "gamechanger" right there.

[Rex]

30. Gush is their leader, make no mistake about it.

They have to kiss his ring when they enter the castle.

[progressoid]

31. Mecca!11!!

Oh, that's rich.

[HopeHoops]

32. I hope he didn't leave any santorum there.

[DLine]

33. It helps if you get on your knees Rick

This would put Rush's fat ass right in your face for you to kiss.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. Sounds like he's trying to get back on Limbaugh's good side

after describing Rush's statements on Sandra Fluke as "absurd".

[Quantess]

36. "absurd"! Blistering critique!

He needs to bow down and praise Rush now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. I've been to Cape Girardeau. It's no Mecca.