Relax, Only A Few More Days Of This

Next, he’s going to attack Casey for something he did in one of Santorum’s dreams.

Santorum Takes Casey to Task Over Kerry’s Comments [KYW 1060]

Rick Santorum Captures Crucial Colon Cancer Vote

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When You Lose The Graffiti Artists, You Lose The Election

Snapped by a reader on Richmond Street near Allegheny. Love the “Bob Brady” in the corner, too. (You can click to enlarge.)

Between this and Santorum’s campaign pulling broadcast television ads, it seems like Casey is going to actually win this stupid election after all.

Santorum In Trouble? Campaign Pulls Broadcast TV Ads [AP/NBC 10]

Adwatch: Bob Casey Is Pro-Little League

With a scant two weeks until the midterm elections, the airwaves are clogged with political advertisements. And, as a viewer with limited commercial-watching time, you may be wondering, “But what ads do I watch?” Most of them are hideous, but every once in a while there’s one that’s so over-the-top hilarious I can’t pull myself away.

That’s where this little new featured comes in. Every weekday now until election day, November 7, Philadelphia Will Do will be doing Adwatch, a feature where the best and brightest of television and radio campaign ads show up. Although not an official part of Adwatch (these distinctions must be made, natch), go take a listen to yesterday’s Newspaper Guild anti-Tierney advertisement and then follow past the jump for the first edition of Adwatch.

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Santorum Losing The YouTube Race, Too

That’s Stephen Colbert, of course, making fun of Rick Santorum’s comparison of the War in Iraq to Lord of the Rings. The best part of it, though, is that this version was uploaded by Bob Casey’s campaign.

But of course.

Colbert Comments On Santorum and Lord of the Rings [YouTube via Bob Casey for U.S. Senate]

Santorum Looking To Nab Crucial Nerd Vote

With the chances that he’s going to win November 7’s election apparently dwindling, Sen. Rick Santorum has decided to pull out all the stops.

What is our state’s junior senator doing? Why, he’s comparing the War in Iraq to Lord of the Rings, of course!

Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.

Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1950s fantasy classic “Lord of the Rings,” to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.

“It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”

In addition to the absolutely WTF-ness of the comparison, I’m not quite sure I get it. Who’s the Eye of Mordor? The terrorists? If we assume the hobbits represent the United States, then where’s Mount Doom?

I’m not sure I follow. I guess the terrorists (the Eye of Mordor) are blowing up buildings in Iraq (Whereever the Eye of Mordor is looking at) while the hobbits (the United States) are slowly climbing up Mount Doom (probably Iraq or North Korea or Canada or whereever our next war is).

As for our other current war, Santorum would like to win it, but the Taliban just isn’t cooperating:

“You know, what we have is a lousy enemy,” Santorum said about the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan.

Yeah, why can’t you greet us as liberators, like those people in Iraq! Er.

Update: He didn’t even fucking get it right! It’s the Eye of Sauron! Nerd power!

Santorum defends Iraq war [Bucks County Courier Times]

Casey, Santorum Continue To Bore Their Way To Nov.

There was an extremely boring debate this morning between professional mime Bob Casey and noted perennial foot-in-his-mouth Senator Rick Santorum. (”Kim Jong Il just wants to watch NBA basketball!”) The KYW 1060 “Breakfast With the Candidates” wasn’t as snippy as the last Casey-Santorum debate, and was actually really quite bland.

However, Santorum continues to confuse everyone to no end. On charges that he had alienated some in the commonwealth, the senator replied (emphasis mine, obviously):

“I have a responsibility to be accountable, and you know when you go out to talk about the big issues of the day sometimes your going to make people mad when you hide from them, when you don’t tell their positions on the issues. My opponent said I was a ‘desperate candidate’ — I am desperate… I am not desperate, I’m exasperated what my opponent’s positions are.”

So… which one is he? Is he desperate or not desperate? Looks like Santorum’s flip flopping again.

Breakfast With the Candidates on KYW Newsradio [KYW 1060]
July 12: Look For The Harlem Globetrotters To Make An Appearance In P’yŏngyang Any Day Now

Cabbies For… Rick Santorum?

You may be wondering why the cab driver above has a bullhorn. Perhaps he’s taking a really aggressive stance on getting the best fares. (”Going to the airport? Come ride with me!”) Perhaps he just got a good deal on car insurance and wants to tell everyone. (”I just saved a boatload of money,” etc., etc.)

But, no, you’d be wrong. You see, that cab driver is shouting out of his bullhorn while looping around Broad Street telling everyone to vote for Rick Santorum. He declined to be interviewed, but here’s what he said, in his thick accent:

“Vote for Senator Rick Santorum, if you really love America!”

I guess the only question is whether ol’ Ricky checked his papers to make sure he was legal. That’s what he’s all about, right?

Santorum Performs Finishing Move On ‘Patriot-News’

Over the weekend, Rick Santorum took a shot at the group that’s costing him the most number of votes in the state: The Harrisburg Patriot-News:

The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., report that Santorum, who trails Democrat Robert Casey in most polls, referred to his “rocky relations with the press” as he moved from room to room to attend regional caucuses earlier at a GOP state committee meeting in a hotel in East Pennsboro.

Later he refused to talk when a Patriot-News reporter, Brett Lieberman, approached with a question about Iran — and again complained about what he called biased coverage.

“I have to raise tens of millions of dollars because of the junk you feed the people of Pennsylvania,” he said, according to the paper. It added that he “then used an expletive to describe the coverage and slammed down a newspaper.”

I’d personally like to thank The Patriot-News for their coverage of Sen. Santorum, fair or otherwise. If Rick Santorum keeps raising money, we can only see more unintentionally hilarious ads.

Santorum, in Tough Re-Election Fight, Slams (Literally) Newspaper [Editor & Publisher]
Sept. 15: Santorum Ads Keep Getting Better And Better
Photo by Michael Righi, licensed via Creative Commons

Santorum Ads Keep Getting Better And Better

Here is just one of the examples where losing Rick Santorum as our state’s junior senator would be quite a downer. Okay, it’s probably the only one. Sure, Santorum is a friend-of-President Bush, a super-religious Catholic who’s fond of telling you how to live your life and overall just a pretty big annoyance for everyone who doesn’t share his views.

But, c’mon, look at these ads! A bunch of actors playing “Casey donors” and explanations of how they’re under investigation or have been indicted or convicted of various bad deeds. Could anyone imagine Casey coming up with an ad this ridiculous? Or, really, even any ad at all?

Of course, the hilarity doesn’t end there: TPM Cafe reports that, well, none of these guys donated to Casey’s Senate campaign.

PA-SEN: Santorum Ad Shows Casey Donors Behind Bars [TPM Cafe]