Rick Santorum (R-Frothy Mixture) already has a Google problem, but now he also has a campaign slogan problem. And he isn’t even actually running for president quite yet! His campaign slogan, “Fighting To Make America America Again” not only twice cites the first name of an actress who starred in “Ugly Betty” and most recently played an undocumented nanny on “The Good Wife,” it also derives from a poem by Langston Hughes, a fan of gay sex:
Speaking in New Hampshire, Rick Santorum was tripped up a bit when a student asked him if he knew that the choice of his campaign slogan, “Fighting to make America America again,” was borrowed from the “pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes,” the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.
Santorum (the former Republican Senator) was later unsure if that was actually his campaign slogan:
When asked a short time later what the campaign slogan meant to him, Santorum said, “well, I’m not too sure that’s my campaign slogan, I think it’s on a web site.”
As the Union Leader points out, though:
It was also printed on the campaign literature handed out before the speech.
The unnamed “student” who asked Ricky the Langston Hughes question was, of course, intrepid ThinkProgress reporter Lee Fang, who adds this notch to his belt already crowded with GOP gaffes, including Herman Cain’s promise not to appoint a Muslim to his (!) Cabinet.
But back to Ricky: that Gay Slogan isn’t gonna cut it. I mean, it leads right back to Santorum’s Google problem, what with Langston Hughes being a fan and all. Not of Santorum, mind you, but perhaps of santorum.
So let’s help Ricky out! Put your Slogan2.0 ideas in the comments.



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Santorum: A Frothy Mix of Incompetence and Stupidity for America (and On Its Dogs)
Rick Santorum: Making Stupit Respectable Again
Stop Intelligence from Destroying America. Vote Stupit!
paid for by the Committee to ridicule Rick Santorum
Vote Santorum or his daughter will cry.
Rick’s for mix – Santorum 2012
Rick Santorum – Get your kicks on route Frothy Mix.
Man on dog, dog on car – Santorum/Romney 2012
More Amerikan Than You Librul Fags Can Ever Be(e)
Rick Santorum: Whipped up by America for
FetishesFetuses and the Nuckin’ Futz!Two possibilities:
Santorum: Father Knows Best.
or
Santorum: My Lawsuits Are Meritorious, Yours Are Frivolous.
Santorum 2012: Mix it up!
Campaign songs: Who Let the Dogs Out and anything by Sir Mix-a-lot
Vote for former Senator Man-on-Dog… Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Lee Fang understands that poem — and why the Santorum campaign’s abuse of it rates with Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ deliberate 1958 butchering of Graham Greene’s The Quiet American as a particularly egregious right-wing coopting and corrupting of a message. (The 2002 remake was done in large part to atone for the ’58 atrocity.)
Here’s the poem the Santorum campaign has abused. I think that this incident may well be proof that there is no life after death; or if there is, that there is no easy way for those who have gone on to make contact with those still on this physical plane — because if there was, Langston Hughes would have already hunted down the deeply cynical, hateful jerk who trashed his poem and given him a few boots up the arse.
The first few stanzas go like this:
Langston Hughes would have already hunted down the deeply cynical, hateful jerk who trashed his poem and given him a few boots up the arse.
I’d pay to see that.
America needs a man who can drive a nail with his forehead.
*** RICKY (THE GEEK) SANTORUM ***
Santorum: I Don’t Wear Diapers.
Bubbly bubbly bubbly
Fun fun fun
New Super Ricky
Frothy fun for everyone
markfromireland
“Santorum: Putting the ‘Man’ in ‘Man on Dog’”
“Campaign songs: Who Let the Dogs Out”
:)
Santorum: Dog is Man’s Best Friend.
Bubbly bubbly bubbly E-NO!
I can’t think of a good one, but I can think of some that would shut down this site forever. :)
Vote for Rick “Sanatorium “the red white and blue true crazy. Brought to you by the early 50′s . Where Blacks, Women, and Gays knew there place.
“I’m so-fucken Pro, the Party of Choice had to run a Pro-lifer against me!”
GROUCHO: You were a United States senator?
SANTORUM: Two terms, Groucho.
GROUCHO: Do you have any children?
SANTORUM: We have seven children.
GROUCHO: One of each, I suppose.
SANTORUM: Heh.
GROUCHO: Seven children, eh? I like a good cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.
Unfortunately, there are not words snarky enough to express my utter contempt for Sanctimonious Santorum and all that he stands for.
Santorum: Putting the man back in dog.
Santorum: I Don’t Wear Diapers. Yet.
Keep it simple.
Rick Santorum: LOL WUT?
Santorum: I Don’t Wear Diapers… in public.
Santorum: The Name On America’s Lips!
Santorum: Froth sea to shining sea.
(Sorry. Where’s punaise when we need him?!)
Santorum: My Dogs Don’t Wear Diapers.
S(a)n(i)t(a)r(i)um
Santorum, I’m not mu rot ‘n ass.
Santorum: Being Insane Is No Vice!
Dan Savage For The Win!
Santorum: Who?
Santorum: I Don’t Wear Diapers Without David Vitter
Book Salon up with Bruce Levine’s Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite hosted by Jon Walker
Let’s take “Crazy” up a notch !
Donald Trump is My B*tch
A vote for Rick salutes the sanctity of morons.
Slogan2.0 idea:
Rickster Trickster American Dickster Frothy Presidential Mixture 2012
Oh, anything that uses his name is going to be funny.
“Put Santorum in the White House”
“Santorum For America”
“You Can’t Beat Santorum!”
“Bring Santorum Back to DC”
If Santorum gets the nomination, I expect sales of chocolate mousse to go up, and any signs for Santorum 2012 may appear to be spattered with a brown foam.
Santorum
Republican for President
Nothing Is Too Fucked Up!
1) Hi I am Rick and dumb as a stone. vote for me! Hi my name is Rick and I maybe a dick but my Willie is not slick oh I tried to be funny!
FWIW, the story’s been also picked up by the LA times, albeit in the Living section’s “Books, authors and all things bookish.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/04/rick-santorum-backs-away-from-langston-hughes-slogan.html
Looking at the promo photo from Santorum’s webpage, on the left it looks like he’s trying to pull away from wifey cuddling. What a weird dude.
Santorum he’ll work like a
man ondogMy car was keyed for this one, but I still like it best:
“DUMPRICK’
kind of sums it all up in a word, don’t you think?!?