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Subscribe to RSSCHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. -- Rick Santorum has a message for the people of Wisconsin: This bud's for you.
A steel-town-raised Pennsylvania conservative Catholic, Santorum spent Friday making the case that he's simply the most relatable candidate to the Badger State voters who will head to the polls on Tuesday. That includes bowling jaunts, fish fries, campaign rallies in neighborhood bars, and --- yes -- a shoutout to the occasional "alcoholic beverage."
"The traditions and the culture [were] not that different," he told voters in Eau Claire of his upbringing compared to the lifestyles of Wisconsin voters. "My dad bowled in a bowling league, and we had alcoholic beverages at home!"
"Not that you guys drink and bowl a lot, no offense," he joked at one point, winning giggles and applause.
Santorum's references to the cultural connoisseurship of booze, along with critiques on the finer points of cheese curds and shoutouts to Lambeau Field's charms, come alongside his urging for voters not to "settle" on Mitt Romney, a "CEO-in-chief" candidate who he says can't relate to regular folks.
"We need someone who can talk and relate to folks who are out there batting in this economy feeling like they're swimming alone," he said. "Someone who can relate to them, who maybe doesn't talk about being the CEO of a company and having, you know, jokes about firing people."
Romney, a Mormon, does not drink alcohol.
Santorum later told reporters that his embrace of a cold one or two was simply a description of his upbringing, not an effort to jab at any of his opponents.
"I'm not trying to draw any contrast,” he said after a rally at a Pabst Blue Ribbon sign-festooned tiki bar in Chippewa Falls. "I'm just telling people a little bit about me and my background and you know what I did growing up."
The son of an Italian immigrant, Santorum added that drinking wine with dinner was a cultural habit in his youth, and he hinted that the effects of excessive imbibing were only clear to him later in life.
"Growing up in an Italian family, wine was a food as far as you're concerned. I didn't think of it as anything else until, well, later on and then we won't get into that," he joked.
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I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and allow he just got caught up in the moment. Maybe it is who he really is and he was just having fun. At least we can't fault him for not reaching to the masses:)
Gee, Ricky couldn't "the occasional alcoholic beverage" lead to unplanned non-procreative sex? You know it might impair your judgement and some seed might get spilled.
Imagine an America led by such hypocrisy? At least Romney is a teetotaler and one could only imagine him and Ann having the most rigid and unsatisfying missionary sex to produce their offspring. One could however also imagine Santorum after a few "buds" throwing a saddle on the wife's back and engaging in some extremely depraved behavior. These hypocritical types are always the worst deviants. History doesn't lie. Santorum reminds me of every big headed frat boy I knew back in college. And you didn't want to see what went on behind the doors of those frat houses when they were closed. Occasionally you would hear the horror stories of what had happened to some naive girl who fell into their trap. Never mind what happened to the pledges. Yikes!
So Rick, your theory is if you're one of the boys having a beer on Friday night, you're qualified to be President of the U.S.
Sounds like a pretty low standard.
Rick, its over for you, so shut your dumbass mouth. Your a loser.
Being consistent, Santorum no doubt appreciates the screw off beer caps.....but he bemoans the fact that Wisconsin bars first cousins of childbearing age from intermarrying, thereby depriving him of his base.....
Ah come on, Corporate Puppet, they ONLY put you in there to TEST THE WATERS! You don't think the Corporates were going to waste ALL THAT SUPERPAC MONEY that they STOLE FROM the 99% American People on MORE THAN ONE CANDIDATE, DO YOU?? Etch-a-Sketch IS IT!
The Corporates have ETCH-A-SKETCH and we, the 99% American People have our illustrious President and don't let CORPORATE BULLS--T you or us! What we really believe is that you and the other CORPORATE-SELECTED PUPPETS were only put in to make it look legit; but, it backfired on them because the 99% American People are NOW WELL IN-FORMED!
Enough is enough! It's time for change, and that time is NOW!! Not later, but right NOW!!!
Would that be try to keep women pregnant and in the kitchen and gays in the closet with no rights??
Don't trust anyone who puts religion before country-and especially make sure they're not piloting your plane. Because you know whats more important to them than you, your family or your country? Their personal salvation. Even though it may be in some cult you sure as hell don't believe in.
Tricky Ricky keeps comparing himself to Reagan. What this button hole doesn't mention is because of the long drawn out primary in 1976, the GPO was in such disarray they gave us the 2nd worse Prez in history when Ford lost to Carter. Now this arrogant loser might cost us having the worse president in history getting a 2nd term. And if he's planning all this for a 2016 run, we need to let him know he's burning bridges faster than the Nazis fleeing the Allies & Russia during WWII. Get out now Rick, while you have some clout in the GOP.
ROMNEY/RUBIO 2012 & 2016
As long as the voters of Wisconsin show up Tuesday and vote, the beginning of end will soon be here. But if they read and are influenced by MediaMatters dribble, then the Obama PAC hit men will succeed in lulling the GOP to sit it out. This is why so many bland and anti-Romney articles for the next three days will be written. Tricky Ricky will energize the evangelical base. Knowing this is last chance to screw over the GOP and re-elect Obama, he'll pull out all the stops, including robocalls to DEMs encouraging them to crossover & vote for him to help Obama. Don't fall for it! Romney IS ahead in the polls, as he was in Mississippi. Do not sit home Tuesday night knowing you could have voted, only to find Tricky Ricky won because of low turnout. Go to the polls and vote wisely Wisconsin. Vote Romney.
A moron or an idiot. You choose! I'm voting for Obama.
Good grief! Santorum is now trying out the ol' George W routine of "I'm the guy to share a beer with".
What a pathetic simpleton he is.
I wouldn't share a beer with him if he paid me.
Oh, you independents think that you know it all!! The field of the GOP trying to be President is suspect at best.. You may not like any of the rules that we use to keep us in some what in order but you just wait. Alls hell is goona break out if these idiots get elected... They are more worried about their views on religion getting them the money that they think that they are entitled to... They scare the hell outta me.. They President has done the best job that he could have with a bunch of unwilling people to work with..If they did not like the Health care issue why did they not come to the table and debate it? This country has a huge problem with it and they don't even think that... I am sick and tired of my monies going in the form of higher premiums to people who should have had insurance.. If we can do it with Drivers insurance why not Health? What makes them so special that the same rules should not apply. And why are insurance companies running the show here? Why are there so many Health clinics in just about every block to? Why is it that the Health care in this country gets a free ride on reigning in on costs and everything else gets busted... Why is the GOP totally concerned about the Supreme Court and the ramifications of it when they don't even get the drift that there is a problem out there? Make someone buy insurance in case you need it which you will at some time, No wonder we have a Drunk Driving problem out there. We can't tell a person that they need to have something so relevant to them but God Forbid that you also tell them that they can not drink and drive. And that ONE DWI is not a freebie..When you kill someone on whether it is your first or tenth DWI, getting up there in court and saying that you are sorry is a slap in the face.. We let this issue go on almost as if it is a rite of passage but we cannot get a comprehensive health care somehow... That is what is wrong her... WE are cheering for the worst possible solution to this issue. I am also sick of listening to the GOP religion talk, this government was set on the premise that there should be religious freedom... How come they are trying to get me to vote for them because they think that they are the best Christian out there? Is that the contest rules? The State of the UNion has to come first then the religion, you can be whatever you want to be just stop thinking that your religion is best for everyone. Our religious freedom came at a price and I don't think that they think of that at all.. Probably because it happen so long ago and they don't like to read about it..
Santorum making a big deal out of Romney not drinking because of his religion. Remember that the US is suppose to have a separation between church and state. Keep religion out of politics. Keep the government out of my bank account, my doctor's office and my personal space.
Mostly Rick is trying to say, "I am one of you".
Mitt has had some problems in that area, and is perceived to be an outsider.
For instance Mitt thought it was pretty funny that his dad closed a factory, and laid the common folk off.
None of these guys actually connect with the common man, Huntsman was the only candidate the GOP had to do that.
If Santorum's intention on making that beer statement is to remind people that Romney is mormon, therefore does not drink beer and therefore can not realte with the average person, then he has struck a new low in his desperation.
He actually believes he's getting away with something here.
Utterly laughable, this is out of the Mitt Romney "your trees are the right height" playbook.
I dunno. I don`t drink, but I can relate to average people. Of course I`m not a silver-spoon fed multimillionaire. Since I realate to average people I plan to vote for Obama.
Sprecher Brewery and Rootbeer. This is NOT Bud country. This is authentic German American country. Italians are for PA and coal mines. We are Germanic and powerful people. Cheese, good beer and bratwurst is what our show is all about. If you ever come to Milwaukee try Sprecher.. Santorum stick to your pasta, and pizza and cheap Bud. We have better beer here in Milwaukee.
As well as the producers of Milorganite !
"Milorganite is manufactured by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The District captures wastewater from the metropolitan Milwaukee area, including local industries such as MillersCoors."
His Wine drinking Italian jab at Romney is to remind people Romney is a MORMON: Mormons are disciplined and respectful people. They don't drink alcohol or partake Caffeine. They were special drawers like the Sikhs of India.. But i rather taken tee totaller Mormon any day over a drunken Italian. We are GERMAN country here in WI Santorum...
Pretty much rules out Mitt. His mouth isn't disciplined or respectful.
I meant to say they WEAR special undies.
Former-Senator Santorum's comments about JFK's 1960 speech to the Baptist Ministers, his simple-mindedness about birth control, and his failure to send his children to the excellent Catholic schools in Northern Virginia, all led to more Catholics in Michigan and Ohio, voting for the Morman/Romney, than the Catholic/Santorum.
Unfortunately for the Country, former-Governor Romney is a salesman, who will say anything, to make the sale. To win the GOP nomination, that means he has to say a lot of really dumb things.
The GOP itself--the Party of my grandfathers--has turned into a sort of weird cult, conducting "heresy trials" under the name of primaries.
At first glance of the headline, I thought perhaps Santorum was finally endorsing one of God's Creations. Marijuana & Hemp ! Sadly he was talking about another drug which KILLS over half a million people a year in the US yet is legal. Even stranger is the fact that Bars invite people to drive to their establishment by providing ample parking !
And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
I guess he is a Christian who picks and chooses what portions of the Bible to believe in and which parts to discard.
Do Christians believe the Creator made a mistake when creating Marijuana & Hemp ?
Seriously, can any Christian reading this please explain to me how Christians uphold a man-made law which forbids a plant which GOD created ?
I actually asked a Pastor about this once he said God may have created it but the Devil perverted it lol
It certainly is more potent today compared to the 60's and 70's.
If the November election were a comedy routine, the Republican candidate will be the straight man. Each of them have provided plenty of lines that the Democrats can easily trump.