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Sheboygan, WI -- Rick Santorumpromised he wouldn't need bumpers when he rolled a few frames at the Lakeshore Lanes here Saturday afternoon.
And he delivered -- three times.
The former Pennsylvania senator got a turkey (three strikes in a row) during a quick game with staffers and his 14-year-old daughter. Before hitting the lanes, Santorum held a rally in a banquet room inside the bowling facility. Toward the end of his speech, he touted his bowling skills as further proof of his blue collar upbringing.
"You compare that to President Obama bowling. I'm not going to need the bumpers," he presumptuously asserted before picking up a bowling ball. "We're going to go out. And you're going to have someone who knows how to bowl, someone who grew up like you grew up, someone who believes what you believe, and someone who will fight like you will fight to make sure this country is free and safe and prosperous."
Santorum was attempting to conjure up images of Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, when the then-presidential candidate bowled a 37 during a stopat a Pennsylvania bowling lane. Though the GOP hopeful did not get in 10 frames, the score from his three strikes would have well exceeded the Obama's final tally.
It was his second of four stops in the Cheese State on Saturday. The Wisconsin primary April 3 will be an important test of the viability of his campaign, although Santorum has said it is not a must-win.
He was scheduled to be at a brewery in Green Bay, Wis., Saturday night as the Louisiana primary results largely expected to favor Santorum were to come in.
"Go out over the next 10 days and you stand up for freedom," he said. "We will win in Wisconsin. We will this nomination. We will defeat Barack Obama and we will keep America free."
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Oh Jaysus!
Is there anything Saint Rick can NOT do?
Perhaps he should try to walk on water?
To my neighbors to the North - you have my deepest sympathies having to endure the insane clown posse like we here in IL did not too long ago!
Wonder how a state who prides themselves on the beer they produce feel about a 'tea-toller'?
*bratwurst*?
If Ricky wins the bowlers, so be it. There aren't enough of them to help him beat Mittens. That's the man he should be holding up to voters as the guy who is 'not like you' for heaven's sake! Put Mitt in a bowling alley and see how he does.
Obama wasn't born rich. I daresay Ricky led a more financially privileged childhood than Mr. Obama did.
Romney: Vote for me because I like grits and say "y'all"...check!
Gingrich: Vote for me bacause I'm religious...check!
Santorum: Vote for me because I can bowl...check!
Considering Santorum's recent stretch of gaffes, flubs, and failures, it would seem Rick's staff has finally decided to assign him tasks that are relatively safe and unlikely to blow up in his face.
Next up: Rick Santorum eating pudding. Film at eleven.
haha feisty, enjoy your 11 percent unemployment in illin- noise. dem policies, led by the bath house boys, emanuel and barack. GOOOD LUCK! LOL! ur state is proof lib policies fail.
dont try to deny it. just hurl the insults. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
THATS WHAT LIBS DO!
I wonder if Russ' babysitter knows he is on the computer?
While the rich are riding in their taxpayer-subsidized electric cars, the losers in President Obama’s America are at-risk kids languishing in under-performing schools in Washington, D.C. As part of his FY 2013 budget, President Obama eliminates funding for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which throws a school choice lifeline to children who would otherwise be left hopeless in Washington’s public school system.
Thanks to the program, more than 1,600 low-income children in the nation’s Capital are using vouchers this school year to attend a school that they choose. The program has been a stunning success. Heritage’s Lindsey Burke writes:
How much does this kind of success cost? A mere $8,000 per student, compared to the estimated $18,000 spent per child by D.C. Public Schools.
To be clear: $10,000 in taxpayer funds to subsidize the purchase of an electric car versus $8,000 to give a child a choice in education. We know what the President chose. Which would you pick?
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The Heritage Foundation is your unimpeachable source? Gee there are plenty of other arms of the Kochtopus you could have chosen.
Siphoning money away from public schools in order to feed it to private schools isn't a solution, it's part of the Conservative plan to destroy public education.
Russ is only into new-nazi zombie sites. Credibility isn't his goal...it's all about crazy.
Sailcat, crazy is voting for a man with a hidden concealed past, destroying the future of our children, and dividing a country like dictators do. See, you are the crazy one, and Im glad to point it out to you.
http://commieblaster.com/obama/index.html
I rest my case.
wuss...
"commieblaster.com"? Really?
...here's your sign...
"Democrats... consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.... Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society." --Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1825. ME 16:96
Sailcat-2064101 is right. Nothing has changed but what the conservatives call themselves.
Every time they get their teeth in a little and taste blood they go to their extreme and are reveled to the public as to who they really are and the veil falls so they loose all credibility with the majority, rebrand and rewrite the facts…
And the president shooting hoops is an elitist pastime like polo?
Nothing like going to the lanes, wearing shoes other people have worn, and sitting around drinking and end eating pizza between your turn. It's not even a sport--I know 'cuz I'm not bad at it. At best it's a social activity like bingo or something. So what?
Holy cow, I laughed so hard at that!
"the Kochtopus" a good-un too. LOL
Conservatives want to end public schools thereby ending standardization and federally-enforced FACTS taught to our children. It's bad enough Texas has as much influence on text books as it does, but what they really want is to teach creationism, force Christian prayer in schools, etc.
Also, things that work in charter schools can work in public schools too. It just needs to be implemented. But leaving things to the private sector, or to the states -- that's how things like slavery happen.
Someone who grew up like you grew up.....what a lame argument for why you should vote for a candidate.
Should we only vote for the guy who played Rock em Sock em Robots? The gal with a My Pretty Pony in the attic?
Congratulations Ricky, there's something you do better than Barack Obama, President of the United States. That's one.
On the other hand, it feeds the Conservative narrative of Barack Obama as a scary "other", unlike "real Americans" in a fuzzy but disturbing way. It's a myth that ignores the reality -- That President Obama is a true American in every way. He's of the melting pot, raised in the central USA in modest, sometimes even difficult circumstances. Despite that background he's managed to parlay innate ability and hard work into a position holding the highest office in the land.
If the President were a Conservative he'd be the greatest hero ever within the GOP. Instead he must be painted as a scary stranger. How sad for them.
na amy, lets just get rid of commie in chief. http://commieblaster.com/obama/index.html
You don't actually know what a communist is, do you russ?
I think one of those bowling balls hit him in the head years ago.
On another story, Dick Cheney is getting a heart transplant? Really? There are vets in line for hearts. Young children. And this half dead and very old criminal is getting one ahead of them? Anyone want to explain how money had nothing to do with this decision? Shame on you Dick Cheney! You had the opportunity to at least go without costing someone else their life but noooo, you had to arrange for just one more needless death of a vet or young child in line for a heart.
AnaB...Cheney get a new heart, at taxpayer expense. That really is an outrage.
For anybody else I'm sure the value added, considering age, and overall health conditions would have rendered them to be not a good candidate!
It's that great insurance that Cheney has.....selfish psycopath!
Transplant a heart where there is none on an old buzzard instead of someone whose life could be greatly more extended and possibly where they can do some good. This heart is red where what heart Cheney might have had once was probably black anyway.
All while his family and supporter (not sure that should be plural) are spending their time and effort railing against the ACA that would provide this sort of coverage for all Americans. Oh the irony.
That's an excellent point, AnaB.
Cheney could have made the selfless choice to let someone younger and healthier have the donor heart he was given. But not Dick. He would never think to do the right thing.
Why did so many people vote for him, twice??
Cheney never ever had a heart. Why does he need one now!
Maybe Rick Santorum could try out for the Professional Bowlers tour. I don't think he has much of a future in politics.
So he can bowl but can he govern?
He has already said and did things that show his true color (not blue collar) and so bowling isn't going to help him except with the very very dumb.
Bowling for votes!...He got a 'turkey' (3 strikes in a row)...Yeah! Now go sit down Santorum since you didn't finish all 10 frames.
Oh wait..Maybe Rick should get in touch with Gov Walker for some pointers on how to run his campaign! lol
Insanitorium bowling is the perfect metaphor for someone, such as him, who is so familiar with "gutter" politics.
Fine, but this is an election and not "Bowling For Votes"!
(Dumbass!)
Good grief, they voted for bush because he was someone they could drink a beer with and now Santorum wants to be one you want to bowl with?
Can you believe the slimy republicans who want to cut 11 billion from the veterans after they send them to wars of choice? And why would Paul Ryan do such a gruesome thing to our own soldiers who have bled and died for our country?
Nothing much, the republicans are cutting funding for veterans for just some more tax cuts for the rich and corporations. While they are at it they plan on making old people suffer too. The icing on the cake is taking the food out of the mouths of children.
If tax cuts created jobs we would be rolling in them after 10 years of the lowest taxes ever for the richest in our country. Alas no jobs, but if we can give them even more tax cuts and make the ones now permanent, honest this time tax cuts will create jobs.
I just don't know who are the dumb people that keep believing all the BS the republicans put out no matter how illogical.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM....VOTE FOR OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Sorry - you do not get to be lawyer and a senator and still call yourself "blue collar". What a pandering arse.
Americans First- please stop stealing my favorite phrase "good grief!"
When are these GOP kids going to stop hurling sand in their playbox?
"I can bowl better than you!" What next? No. Please don't speculate. They are doing just fine in that department. Just when you think it can't get more childish.....
Sorry can't help it. The republicans frustrate me so much I am left without much to say other than "good grief". I thank you for the loan.
What do you say to someone who values the life of an egg over the life of a child? I have a hard time wrapping my head around the thought of how precious the republicans hold the egg, but once it is a child who cares how it dies either by starvation or lack of health care?
On one hand they have tried to pass laws that makes the egg more important than the mother. The mother in their minds should be sent to prison for the killing of an egg.
On the other hand the republicans push gun laws so radical that I would get in less trouble if I took a gun, stalked a child and killed him and claimed self defense than if you got an abortion under the new person-hood amendment that the republicans candidates have all signed a pledge to push into law.
When Romney said their goal was to overturn Roe v Wade. I thought we are in it now. If we don't fight for them now, we won't have any left.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I think so many of us are sharing that forehead slapping phrase! Along with some unprintable words.
So agreed. And the "pro life" drives me up a wall when uttered by these hypocrites. You can be both pro life and pro choice at the same time, but these idiots don't get it. And they certainly don't get that a woman's decision on what to do with her own womb is hers and hers alone. And now all of the forced vaginal probing?!
GOOD GRIEF!
It feels like they are trying to push us back into a nightmarish time warp. One of my first clues was the hue and cry over stem cell research. ?!
One can only wonder how many people would be alive today if that research had been on the fast track instead of the cons bogging it down in their political mud for years.
Alive and kicking!
Another desperate ploy from the wanna be's this is pretty offensive to all non bowlers that are blue collar but par for the course of all republican candidates.
the smell of pandering is thick : Romney saying he likes cars, Rickey saying he likes bowling, Newt with his assorted grits comments. The repukes strategy is if you have nothing to offer be negative and pander your butt off! If you are desperate you pander
If Santorum wasn't a Republican Corporate Puppet, you could almost like him! He's in the WRONG PARTY, come join President Obama, you'll learn ALL ABOUT US, the 99% American People! We've had enough of corrupt corporate government rule and we don't want anymore! We made them successful, now it's their turn to give back! And it is that time, which is NOW, not later, but right NOW!!
You might have a BLUE COLLAR, but you have on a CORPORATE NECKTIE that you can't remove!! Get it?
Santorum, take "ETCH-A-SKETCH" bowling and get some of his SUPERPAC money!
Santorum you were right, we, the 99% American People, ARE BETTER OFF with President Obama than "etch-a-sketch"! Come join us and we'll vote for you! Otherwise stay a corporate puppet and go down with them!
When are you going to learn that CAPITALISM DOESN'T WORK, hasn't worked and is NEVER GOING TO WORK because of corrupt corporate GREED and ZERO control over it!
Capitalism works very well, but only when it is well, and intelligently regulated. Adam Smith even warned that when a businessman makes rules for commerce, those rules are highly suspect, and should be carefully scrutinized, as the businessman will make rules most advantageous to him, and most disadvantageous to the public.
The fact that he has kids is only proof his penis works! Not that he’s a good father.
Kim jon ill bowled.
New bumper sticker....If you want to strike out...vote for rick
I know plenty of blue collar folks who not only can't bowl, they don't like to bowl. I also know plenty of non-blue collar people who love to bowl. Just because you can bowl, Mr. Santorum, that does not give you any special 'insight' into what blue collar workers are experiencing, and it definitely does not mean it gives you any special qualification to be President.
The question is: do you know how to keep score . . . on paper . . . with a pencil (i.e. no help from the computer)?