#santorumfail

A young Republican knocks on a house door.

“Hello, I’m a volunteer with Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign, and I’d like to talk to you about his vision for the country, if you have a few minutes…”

The black lady who answers replies, “Didn’t he say he didn’t want to help black people? Why would I vote for him?”

“Well, ma’am, he didn’t actually…”

“And why are you working for him? And not getting paid? You know how many of our people died because of this racist nonsense?”

“Ma’am, if I could…”

“Hell no, you can’t. Don’t come back around here. All Republicans do is use confused young people like you to spread their filth.”

This, my friends, is usually the end result of discussions about statements like these:

After suggesting that an expansion of Medicare is really just a plot to make voters more “dependent” on Washington, Santorum added: ”I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money.”

On the Foolishness of the Virginia Presidential Primary (UPDATED)

I was hoping that, on the first day of the new year, I’d wake up and all the foolishness that was going on within RPV would just be a really bad joke. You know, the whole ‘new year, new start” thing…or maybe someone was trying to make a very long “New Year’s Fool” joke.

Didn’t happen.

As it stands right now, Rick Perry-joined by Newt, Bachmann, Santorum and Huntsman-are all suing to join Romney and Ron Paul on the Virginia primary ballot. AG Cuccinelli has stepped in, saying that he will introduce emergency legislation to make that so. Meanwhile, RPV might (more on that “might” later) require everyone who votes in the primary to sign a loyalty oath, declaring that they WILL support the Republican nominee for president this fall, whoever that person may be.

Let’s tackle these in order, shall we?