Rick Santorum did his own Rewrite of fellow presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman.
Über conservative Santorum took on the former Utah governor’s nonsensical dirt bike ad over his stance on abortion. The original shows a person (more details on that in tonight’s show) riding through the desert. No voice-overs. Just folksy music playing in the background with text-on-screen reading “In 4 days” and “Has seven children, one from India, one from China.”
The Santorum version shows a rider in a similar landscape, riding along to country music, then finally crashing. This text reads, "Hasn't signed the anti-abortion pledge. Just like Mitt Romney..."
The Susan B. Anthony List, similar to the Grover Norquist-style blanketed GOP pledge to never raise taxes, aims to defund "contractors and recipients of federal funds with affiliates that perform or fund abortions." Right now, Huntsman and Mitt Romney are the only holdouts in the 2012 GOP field.
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maybe the republicans will have better luck with anti-abortion pledge, than they seem to be having with grover norquists anti-tax pledge.
tom coburn and his colleagues are very brave (the wrath of grover norquist) to put class tax hikes and closing offshore tax loopholes on the table to help decrease the deficit. i suppose they have to start somewhere, and they have probably been getting some feedback from their constituents that tells them that they should not balance the budget by only cutting medicare and other necessary programs that affect the less fortunate among us.
that said, the tax hikes they have put on the table so far are not nearly enough.
the republican party should stick to moving this country forward, and not waste so much time signing pledges.
I laughed so hard when Lawrence described Jon Huntsman a "stuffy, starchy Mormon" who was trying to overtake "another stuffy, starchy Mormon" in the Republican race for the nomination.
That was just hilarious, but undoubtedly accurate. And it gave me a new pentameter by which to describe politicians.
Like the politician who was on TV announcing that 10,000 would start coming home. You know, the "shifty, lying Negro."
Lawrence, you da man!