“I know we’re here in Cleveland,” the happy-hour debate participant and former Pennsylvania Senator told the crowd of diehard conservatives at the House of Blues. “And as a Steeler fan I know Cleveland doesn’t know anything about offense or defense—”
The crowd, which had been applauding at intervals, immediately turned on him: Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Boooo!!!!!!!!!!!! Booooo!!!!!!!
Santorum, undeterred, doubled down.
“Hey look….we used to—”
“Did he just say that?” Inquired an organizer into a microphone.
“Hey look, we used to really hate the Browns in Pittsburgh,” Santorum went on. “Now we just feel sorry for them.”
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOO!!!!!! Boooooo!!! Booooooooo!!!!!!!
“Is he trying to piss off Cleveland?” The mic’d man wondered aloud.
Santorum tried to rescue himself: “Just for the record, I have to do that because I’m a Penn State grad, and Ohio State kicks our butt every single year, so I had to toss it back somehow.”
But the damage was done. In a Republican field this crowded, supporting the wrong sports franchise is enough to invalidate a candidacy.
Santorum followed remarks by Carly Fiorina, the consensus winner of the Fox News undercard. She reiterated her conservatism v. progressivism closing statement from the debate and described the Planned Parenthood videos in graphic detail to win the crowd over.
Santorum, for his part, kicked off his remarks with a mini stand-up routine — “Why did George Washington cross the Delaware?” He supposedly asked a gaggle of of grade schoolers. “Because Chris Christie closed the bridge,” one of them supposedly replied. He went on to trumpet his experience, his conservative voting record in a Blue state, and his integrity.
But after his Browns jabs, at least in the eyes of Cleveland’s thin-skinned suburban electorate, Santorum may as well be Roethlisberger.
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2015.
Awww, and I was so close to voting for him too…
he’s subhuman
WTG Santorum you brainless sister kissing knuckledragger…
Not that you have a chance anyway…
But you did just implode…
….and this is why career politicians need a Tele-Promp-Ter for every moment of every day — even when chatting about the current weather.
Dissing the Browns (and in Cleveland yet)? And Trump’s dissing women? Is this the face of the new Republican party? The party has allowed these two in to the debate, and they have embarrassed their party with their “true” feelings. There is no such thing as looking shocked after the fact or trying to save face by “demanding an apology.” It is a disgrace and a reflection on the entire party. These people are part of the organization known as the Republican Party and their horrid comments have become a part of what the party has become. They cannot deny the facts: it is a direct, disgraceful reflection on all the candidates, not just the offenders. To let this go on would be a farce. To even have started it shows a disregard for the American people. If the Republicans can’t control their members, what kind of president would any one of them make?
Thanks, Joe, for your clearly unbiased opinion. Not sure what party you’re from, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say either Democrat or Green (and not Nader green, like pot smoking green). Obviously this guy is an idiot, just like Trump is. The funny thing is, the only people that take them seriously are also idiots. Anyone who knows anything realizes that neither of these bozos will sniff the presidency.