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Rick Santorum’s Campaign Really Just Made An Ad Where His Picture Is Splattered With Frothy, Brown Sludge

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This has to be on purpose, right? There’s no way that Rick Santorum’s campaign would release an official ad in which his picture is splattered with chunky brown liquid without knowing what it looked like. They totally did this on purpose. Right? Right?!

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The ad I’m referring to is one released by Santorum yesterday on YouTube and entitled “Rombo.” In it, a Mitt Romney lookalike runs around a warehouse of some kind shooting at a cardboard cut out of Santorum. This is supposed to represent Romney’s “mud slinging” and, as such, Santorum’s team decided to have the fake Romney’s gun shoot mud. Or, at least, it’s supposed to be mud.

How about we compare a screen grab from the ad with a screen grab of Santorum’s least favorite website, Dan Savage’s SpreadingSantorum.com?


How could they not have known what they were doing? Savage’s site is the number one search term for “Rick Santorum” on any number of online search engines, something that, for years, people have been saying is one of the biggest problems facing the candidate’s career. And he made an ad that literally has frothy, brown stuff being flung at his own face?

On Tumblr, comedian Justin Grace theorized that this was actually a trap that Santorum’s team set for Romney. As an “underfunded candidate,” Grace argues, the team needs publicity and are hoping that someone in Romney’s camp will call out the “santorum” connection, thus making them seem even dirtier (Romney had a good chance to take the bait this morning but didn’t).

It’s a good theory and one I’m going to subscribe to. Not because I necessarily think that’s what’s happening, but because it’s the only explanation that isn’t entirely insane. We know that Rick Santorum is very aware of his “Google problem,” so why in God’s name would he “approve” an ad that seems to actively court it? Even if people like Grace are right and Santorum just wants his ad getting air time in any way possible since he has less money than Romney, why would he want to remind people about this? Sure, it’s been getting a lot of play on places like MSNBC today, but is it worth it? I mean, there are people that still don’t know the other definition of “santorum.” He’s just giving them another excuse to learn it.

The whole thing is very, very strange.

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  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, on the Romney front, a liberal website in Boston claims that the car Willard is driving in his “Detroit” ad is a Chrysler that was built in Canada:  http://bluemassgroup.com/2012/02/mitt-romneys-michigan-ad-shows-him-driving-a-car-that-was-made-in-canada/  

  • Anonymous

    Reports now are saying Rick’s wife Karen sued her doctor for $500,000… kind of Frothy to me seeing how her husband is calling for tort reform.

  • Verreauxii

    Jon, I’m going to assume you didn’t see the hazelnut spread (also brown) being hawked at CPAC with the “Santorum” label? That was even funnier! I will get you a pic. I saved it!

    http://i.imgur.com/LdQuO.jpg

  • Anonymous

    Ewwww.  Romney got splattered with Santorum.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     The sad fact is his target audience the Conservatives have no idea what the “Frothy Brown Sludge” means.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     You will not find a 100% American made car. Check the body of your own car. See where it was made. Prepare for a shock.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     If you were casting a movie, Romney would play a clean-cut hero, Gingrich would play an evil genius, and Santorum would play a henchman. That is what they look like, and that is just as important as this reference to the other meaning of Santorum.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless Clooney

    Bershad’s mind is in the same gutter as Gay Internet bully Dan Savage…surprise!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless Clooney

     What would Obama be?

  • Anonymous

    Huffington Post says that Chrysler tried to sell the 300 as an American-made cah but the Feds said nay,nay.

  • Anonymous

    Frothy mudslinging

  • Чёрт Возьми

     A lawyer? District Attorney? Can’t be a bad guy role. Not PC.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum wears the label proudly.  His daughter not so much.

    http://reason.com/blog/2006/11/08/your-tears-are-so-yummy-and-sw

  • Anonymous

     Does it have Santorum coming out its back pipes or something?

  • LindaLeigh

    For those who haven’t Googled Santorum it probably comes of as a cute
    and smart ad.  For those who have though….I can’t imagine what the
    Santorum team or SuperPac was thinking. It doesn’t bode well for him.

  • Anonymous

     The leader of the free world.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PBQ2U57JQPHN6N44SIFZEMTCC4 BH

    I hear the RNC was extremely upset with the original version of the ad, which featured Romney shooting a mere .22 caliber pistol. It was subsequently redone with a weapon more commensurate with the GOP electorate’s sensitivities in mind…

  • val smith

    As Gloves Donahue would say; I haven’t laughed so hard at a child since trig was born. 

  • Pablo

    No, it isn’t sad. It just means they’re not followers of a degenerate like Dan Savage or influenced much by the gay mafia. And that brown stuff? You don’t find it on Santorum, as it’s the product of Dan Savage’s “lovemaking”.

    Not everyone is impressed with juvenile scat jokes. But if you are, have at it.

  • Pablo

     Progressives are so classy.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Santorum is turning into a cartoonist’s dream.

    The Bum’s Rush

    In 2006, Rick got tossed like a bum
    A premonition of things yet to come
    ‘Cause once voters vett him
    They”ll surely regret him
    No more hot, frothy, surging Santorum!
    __________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Anonymous

    I was mistaken about the ad that I saw briefly earlier today and commented that santorum was shooting the gun…sorry its worse then I thought when I finally watched the whole thing…AWFUL,AWFUL…if he thinks that idiotic ad will get him votes he is out of his mind…its goofy and fraught with inuendo

  • Pablo

     Urkel.

  • Pablo

    The only people who’d consider that there’s innuendo in that are the degenerates reading it into it who would never vote for him anyway. Or would they???

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/15/1065052/-Announcing-Operation-Hilarity-Let-s-keep-the-GOP-clown-show-going-

  • Pablo

    A paintball gun? That’s what it is.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     Fair ’nuff.
    I get the humor of it.

  • Anonymous

    Pablo, is someone paying you to comment on every single article on Mediaite?

    Why don’t you blow people’s minds by trying, just once, to sprout something other than a GOP talking point?

  • Anonymous

    Ah, for the first time the genesis of the ‘frothy’ moniker in relation to senator Santorum becomes clear, thanks to this post. Thanks, mediaite… or not

  • Anonymous

    Regressives are so frothy.

  • Anonymous

    If this guy gets the nomination the whole world will be talking about frothy mixture of lubrication & fecal matter as a byproduct of anal sex, great family values by the Republicans.

  • Pablo

    Ah, so only the GOP can recognize a freaking paintball gun? Brilliant. Why don’t you buzz off, nutsack.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Hey Pablo, don’t be so angry that your party is in shambles yet again. Just keep pushing that 999 plan and maybe someone will start listening again

  • Anonymous

    Hey Pablo, I don’t mean to be rude, I’m just worried about you.

    Let me know if you need a hand carrying all that water for Santorum.

  • Walt

    Pablo, you really have been coming apart here with all your comments.  You do just come across as an ignorant right wing talking point troll.  By the way, I wonder if Mediaite will post the clip from Keith Olbermann’s show last night where he completely debunked Breibart’s claim about all the rapes at OWS.  Complete fabricated lies.  You can catch it over at Raw Story.  Breibart has now been caught in so many lies why would anyone believe anything he spouts out of his ass?  You will.  You are one of the fools that have become so debased by years of relentless indoctrination by conservative pundits that you actually defend the psychotic behavior by people like Breibart.  The whole conservative movement in this country has become a collective group led by totalitarian sociopathic wolves made up of pundits, politicians, theocrats, oligarchs herding their sheep through fear, loathing, and lies into their psychotic world view driven by wealth, power, and self-loathing.  You want to know how bat shit crazy the far right (you) has taken the conservative movement?  Check out these quotes:

    “While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.”

    “Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion.  That’s a decision that’s up the the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.  It’s not a conservative issue at all.

  • Anonymous

    “The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.” Is this what they feed the people at OWS?

  • Anonymous

    This stuff is about the same color as Obama. Must be chocolate ice cream mixed with vanilla.

  • michael johnson

     If Santorum were firing the gun, the target would be an impoverished woman.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

    Gingrich behind as santorum surges
    He can’t control his purient urges
    Santorum is better
    Without sleevless sweater
    another republican ass purges

  • Anonymous

    It sure looks and smells like what spews from *your* mouth when you open it . . .

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Be amazed at the new “mud”-slinging Santorum ad.
    Be horrified as Santorum is splattered with himself.
    Be revolted as the super-soaker santorum splashes back onto Romney.

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Please. Be. Quiet.
    For even 5 minutes.

  • Anonymous

    What’s the matter, didn’t you get yours?

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