George Will: Santorum Is Winning Because Republicans ‘Crave Fun’

by Alex Alvarez | 7:18 pm, January 4th, 2012

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Quick! What’s one word you would use to describe Rick Santorum? …Devout? …Stylish? …Fertile? NO. The answer, according to George Will, is “fun.”

In a Washington Post column published this afternoon, Will explains Santorum’s rise in popularity (I absolutely refuse to use the alliterative, two-word term that describes his recent success) by observing that Republican voters, not unlike girls at the end of the working day, just wanna have fun. Or, at least, don’t want to play by the rules to which they feel expected to adhere:

Rick Santorum has become central because Iowa Republicans ignored an axiom that is as familiar as it is false: Democrats fall in love, and Republicans fall in line. Republicans, supposedly hierarchical, actually are — let us say the worst — human. They crave fun. Supporting Mitt Romney still seems to many like a duty, the responsible thing to do. Suddenly, supporting Santorum seems like a lark, partly because a week or so ago he could quit complaining about media neglect and start having fun, which is infectious.

Will adds that Santorum has found a way to attract and connect with that “economically anxious and culturally conservative” block of voters formerly known as “Reagan Democrats” and currently considered “the Republican base” because he is “from them,” while his main rival, Mitt Romney, is decidedly not.

What say you, Santorum fans? Is your candidate of choice the equivalent of eschewing a wholesome plate of veggies for a whole bowl of Laffy Taffy?

h/t Washington Post

George Will, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Washington Post

Anonymous

Maybe he meant shun.
Anonymous

George Will craves Santorum.
Anonymous

Santorum is winning because he picked the right raffle ticket. Trump, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich. Each had an anti-Romney bump until they opened their mouth and people realized how stupid they were. If the primary were held in two weeks, we’d all be calling Huntsman the comeback kid. In four weeks, Buddy Roemer.
http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

Santorum was found on Will’s shirt collar.
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Anonymous

He’s fun like a game of Monopoly with your grandparents. You start out thinking it couldn’t possibly be as bad as the last time you tried it, but in the end? You just end up hating everybody at the table.
us995

sounds like the Obama administation
http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

I don’t think outlawing birth control will get him very far in the general election.
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

“I absolutely refuse to use the alliterative, two-word term that describes his recent success”
Thank you!

G-Will (G-Diggy after his third chalise of Patron) is 10,000% correct. The whig party actually owes it’s origin to the chance meeting of Henry Clay and a nine fingered carnie named Gabagail (Yes, Gabagail). What started as a torrid fun affair became a plan for economic modernization aimed at easing the travel of fun-fair folk from town to town. The development of political parties has always been a concomitant of the policy makers gleeful pursuit of assorted lusts.
12voltman1

Maybe he meant cum.
Tucsonense

George, you are out of touch Son, Santorum Fun??? Seriously??!!
Anonymous

We also crave teriyaki turkey jerky. Nothing makes my blood red like turkey jerky.
Anonymous

That picture is funny…we all know he was continuously beat up and bullied growing up, so now it is his life’s goal to make the world miserable for everyone else. Simple nerds revenge.
Anonymous

Simply put, George Will is an idiot!!
Anonymous

No. Republicans crave…ignorance.
Anonymous

What ignorance are you referring to?
Anonymous

Wow, fun and Republican in the same sentence, even for Will this is a stretch. Maybe he’s trying to deflect attention from his oft stated denial of global warming and self serving advocacy of tax cuts, deregulation, and other failed trickledown policies that have destroyed our economy.

What a hack.