Rick Santorum Hates Langston Hughes

Former Senator Rick Santorum announced Thursday that he will be running for President in 2012. You might remember Rick Santorum from his rants where he equates homosexuality to incest or his attempts to bring a six year old girl into a Congressional debate to show that abortion is wrong.

Well Rick Santorum is back in full swing running under the campaign slogan, ‘Fighting to Make America America Again’. When it was pointed out that the slogan was similar to lines from a popular poem written by gay activist Langston Hughes, Santorum was understandably mortified. After all, homosexuality is a downhill slope. First you’re quoting gay poets for your campaign slogan, next thing you know you’re blowing farm animals in the back of a Dairy Queen.

Basically, Rick Santorum using a Langston Hughes quote to run for President is the equivalent of Osama Bin Laden selling  Ben’s Deli Corned Beef sandwiches to raise money for jihad.

When the question was brought up in an interview Santorum tartly responded, ‘No I had nothing to do with that.’ and ‘well, I’m not too sure that’s my campaign slogan, I think it’s on a web site.’ He thinks it’s on a web site. Well let’s take a look at www.ricksantorum.com. See if you can find the slogan on his web page:



It’s tough to spot. I’ll give you a hint it’s right underneath the picture of Rick Santorum in gigantic letters. You know,  the only text on the page.

This is an understandable mishap. It’s actually quite common for a candidate to choose a campaign slogan only to change it after he realizes it goes against everything he stands for.

We remember Harry Truman’s slogan, ‘Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.’ Which as it turns out was a quote from Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

And of course the Al Gore short-lived slogan, ‘Climate change isn’t real.’ which was pulled from a pamphlet found in the garbage outside a Monsanto plant.

The question remains, ‘Why hasn’t Santorum taken down the slogan from his website?’ Is he just being stubborn? Well in today’s fast-paced world a Presidential campaign slogan is essential. You can’t  seriously entertain the idea of running the free world without giving the people a six to eight word sentence summing up everything you stand for.

So here are two new slogans Rick Santorum can use for his campaign:
- ‘Rick Santorum: Gays are like pistachio nuts, in that I hate them.’
- ‘Rick Santorum: Fighting to Make America America Again. You know the America before gays and women had rights. The one where slavery and polio existed.’