Behind in Polls, Santorum Touts Game Legislation Partnership with Hillary

Yay, another IDIOT singing the "I'm doing it for teh childrens!!1one" song. -_-

That was pathetic. Bad enough the guy's a toolbox with nothing going for him, but if you're going to have wrestling in the background, at least throw a couple of Divas in there.

Wow, I'm surprised.

This is basically "I shot my self in the foot with a .22 pistol and can still limp away with dignity. I guess I'll try a RPG now..."

...What the heck?

There isn't any inapropriate material in children's games. The "inapropriate material" is in adults games. It irratates me when people try to put laws on something they know nothing about.

I thought the commercial was pretty good.

~the1jeffy Says:
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:22 am
I cannot wait for Nov 7th. That’s all I’m saying.

If only that would shut these insane jackasses up.

Santorum was commemorated by Dan Savage for being an idiot, and now when I see him I can't think of anything else but the new meaning of his name:

http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/sodomy/santorum/

You gotta love when politicians get desperate. Right now Casey has a double digit lead on Santorum. He's barely hitting 40% in the polls. Just like jeffy, I can't wait for Nov. 7th. Kiss your job bye-bye Rick.

People need to get the word out to Pennsylvania voters to vote against this guy and then send an email to his campaign website to tell them why they're voting against him. That's the only way they'll learn to respect us as gamers, when we vote for issues that matter to us.

Rick Santorum has been on the leading edge of censorship across all mediums in the name of "teh children" for some time now. He is generally a rather narrow-minded person who seeks to impose his morality as legislation on the entire nation. His rabidly anti-homosexual rhetoric in the name of "teh children" for some time now. He fully deserves the term that Dan Savage has coined, as referenced above. Another one of the right-wing censors is about to bite the dust. Now if we could only remove the left-wing censors, we'd really have something going.

> ~Shih Tzu

Unless you were in Florida, I doubt it was throwing your vote away. Nothing wrong with voting your conscience, people ought to do it more often.

RE: The 'wasting your vote' argument. I've said it before and will likely do so again - if everyone voted according to the issues rather than by party lines, I think we'd see the third parties get a considerable amount of the vote. This is likely becoming more and more true, as the two majors seem to be dominated more and more by people playing the political game just to keep themselves in office. People are growing more and more dissatisfied with the two-party system and are beginning to support third parties - the Libertarians in particular get a lot of play time these days because in a way they stand against the government excess that people are beginning to hate and that permeates both major parties.
Third parties are also getting more attention because sometimes two major candidates for the same office, in an effort to both appeal to the same moderate voters, begin to sound identical. Jeffy, I heard about the Green candidate being booted and also thought it was crummy, espeically since I thought I heard accounts that they could have gone to court to defend themselves but it would have been prohibitively expensive - the major parties basically spent enough to torpedo the guy. Maybe true, maybe not, but a shame nonetheless. And what was worse is that supposedly the two that are left aren't all that different -least that's what I read in passing, though I'm not a PA resident and haven't paid too much attention.
Also, look at how many races are actually close. This election year there's quite a few more than usual, but I think out of 435 less than one hundred are questionable, and that's a very VERY conservative guess. I live in MA, and last I checked Ted Kennedy is up for re-election to the Senate and will win handily. One might therefore argue that my senate vote will be wasted no matter what. It won't change the outcome of the election. So I might as well vote for the person whose views I agree with.

Anyhow, people, if you like the third parties, vote the third parties. No, they probably won't win any big offices, but those votes still count. Parties that pull enough of the vote qualify for government funding that can help in the future. It also sends a message to the eventual winner. If 10 or 20% of voters vote Green, the winner might realize that issues important to the Green party are important to a lot of voters, and will begin to act accordingly. And if they don't, their inability to listen to constituents might drive more voters away to vote third party.
And it also means that you're not voting for someone you don't agree with. Borrowing from Jeffy's post again - anyone who hates Rick Santorum and votes for Bob Casey for that reason alone is not allowed to ever complain about Casey's stance on any issues - he might prove to be a joke, but he's a joke that YOU helped into office.

Well, Paul beat me to it. I think that definition pretty well sums up Santorum's character, both political and personal.

@Shih Tzu - you're more or less right. The problem is that those in power almost never back electoral reform. I always figure that third-party-friendly reforms won't happen until third party candidates manage to get elected. Maybe those currently in power would support such things, but they certainly don't talk about it much and such reforms need to actually be discussed.
There's a huge amount of momentem in favor of the two party system, both culturally and legally. While what I said previously is perhaps overly idealistic, that doesn't change the fact that we as voters must do something to bring about change. If all that happens is that we gripe about the system but play along anyway then nothing will ever change.

Dumbest campaign ad ever.

@~the1jeffy

"Great sentiment, but I can’t advocate voting against a candidate. A vote counts for whomever you cast it for. Quite frankly, Santorum’s only balloted opponent isn’t grand either. We have Rick “I hate gay people” Santorum, and we have Bob “I’m a wishy washy career politician” Casey."

Damn dude, you just described why I don't vote. As I look at it, no matter who you vote for, you vote for some asshole that will eventually screw you. I remember standup prop comic Gallagher (melon smasher) once did a special where he had a charicature prop of a politician and he turned the nice smiling face on one side of the prop to the audience and said "This is the face you see when they want to get into office and...", and after turning it around to the ugly face, says "This is the face you see when they get in there". Classic and explains US government officials perfectly.

All in all, I hope Santorum gets his but kicked out of office.