Fighting Rick Santorum

Today, I'm going to continue riding on the Rick Santorum bandwagon. No, I'm not talking about being a Rick Santorum supporter, I'm talking about blogging about him at his expense. And today, I'm gonna push the boundaries about as far as they can go, and it is all completely justifiable!

Recently, as many of you know, Rick Santorum has taken some very conservative stances on the issues... Especially those issues involving gay marriage and pornography. In fact, before Santorum's run for president even began, he was already making stupid comments that caused major controversy.

Back in 2003, Santorum stated in an AP interview that "In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing."

Now, Santorum claims that he was saying that homosexual sex was not beastiality, but others are skeptical, arguing that if that were true, he'd never had brought up "man on dog" in the first place. After Santorum defended himself, the tension boiled over, and journalist Dan Savage decided it was time to act.

By acting, I mean Savage created a new definition of the word Santorum on the website spreadingsantorum.com, and began an internet campaign to make it the first thing that comes up on a google search of the word. His plan was successful, and now the name Santorum will forever be associated with-- No, I'm not going to post the definition on here. If you don't already know what santorum now means, and you really want to know, just look it up on Google. Just be prepared to be thoroughly disgusted.

More recently, Santorum has attacked the pornography industry, claiming that it is dangerous to American morals, and is causing violence to spread. Beside the fact that he is wrong, Santorum has kinda annoyed the male community (I'm sure other groups are annoyed too, but men were the first people to come to mind). Of course, these comments once again made Santorum look dumber and dumber. Seriously, why would someone ever put eliminating pornography as a major concern, while there is so much wrong with our country?

In response to this, internet users decided to make some rather clever images. The first, as seen above, is a portrait of Rick Santorum made completely out of gay pornography (it becomes borderline NSFW if you enlarge it). The second, seen below, is a bunch of small images of Rick Santorum, forming the image of gay pornography.

Rick Santorum

Not only is this trend of utilizing Rick Santorum's hatred for/obsession with homosexuality and pornography to create jokes hilarious, but it also has utilized kairos and ehtos in attempts to derail his campaign.

The timing of these attacks on Santorum have come at the perfect time, right during presidential election season, when the eyes of America are locked upon Santorum. Now, if a potential voter who knows nothing about Santorum looks him up online, they will be shocked, and the word Santorum will evoke images they'd rather not think about, and could even decide to not vote for him (which is the goal). And the pictures do the same thing, as Rick Santorum and gay porn are forever linked.

The plan is that by linking the two, opposition of Santorum hopes that Santorum's ethos will drop due to a lack of credibility. Obviously, they hope that internet users won't pay enough attention to notice that these definitions and images are meant to make him look bad. In fact, this is just normal political mudslinging that voters see every single election season. Campaign ads do exactly the same thing, by questioning superficial characteristics of opposing candidates in order to lower their ethos.

I personally hope Santorum stays in this race all the way until the Republican National Convention, where  he will inevitably lose to Mitt Romney. My reasoning isn't that Santorum is a good candidate, in fact he is very far from being a god candidate. My reasoning is that Rick Santorum has been extremely entertaining, and the comedy world will never be quite the same once he is out of the picture... Well, that is until 2016 when he will likely run for office again. It's just like the Olympics, except way funnier.

Oh well, for now I will just have to cherish these last few months of hilarious Santorum-related comedy bits while they last.