See, that’s what I was missing!

I thought the reason I was feeling down, sluggish, half-hearted and all was because I was missing the excitement of the competitive GOP primaries, but you know, that wasn’t it. I was specifically missing one guy: Rick Santorum. But this week, my former senator has unleashed a new organization and will continue to stain the political landscape with bigoted nonsense do his political thing (which is, actually, staining the political landscape with bigoted nonsense). It’s called Patriot Voices, and it’s going to be hotter than a….teabag. In a very hot cup. Making tea. 

What’s it all about?

“Patriot Voices is committed to promoting faith, family, freedom and opportunity,” Santorum said in a news release that accompanied his announcement. “We believe that we’re one nation under God and all we do must be consistent with the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. We support candidates who share our convictions and hold those accountable that serve us in elected office.”

“Faith, family, freedom and opportunity”. There’s a slogan in that, for you. Actually they’re working on an issues primer:  “America, apple pie, abortion”; “Bullets, birth certificates, Bible” and one particularly for the ladies “Church, children, chattel”..

You may ask, aren’t there already conservative organizations abound, raising money and supporting conservatism, and, uh, raising money and supporting conservatism, and….holding conventions and whatnot?  All your Tea Party groups and think-tanky things, and other clubhouses with nifty badges and the like?  Well, yeah, but this one has Rick Santorum. So.  You can see the immediate appeal. He’s a respected former senator and was a serious candidate for president.  So he has the determination to get himself Mitt Romney elected president. And defeat Barack Obama and people who support his policies (such as gays, environmentalists, and blahs.) 

And what’s the plan?  Well, the first goal is to get a million supporters. I guess he could recruit those Millions Moms I keep hearing about.  (I’m cynical. I don’t think there are a Million Moms. I don’t even think they’re mostly moms.  Some mothers, maybe….)  Then, they are going to accept unlimited funds (yay—ALL THE MONIES!) and work with the Red White and Blue Fund SuperPAC (yay, ALL THE OTHER MONIES!) to get Rick Santorum’s campaign debt gone, get Rick Santorum a VP spot, to totally keep Santorum in the spotlight for 2016 to get Mitt Romney elected.  Because Rick Santorum!

Posted by Vixen Strangely on 06/09/12 at 03:54 PM • Permalink

Sanctorum has unleashed something . . . not quite sure it’s what he intended, though.  Took a gander at the brand spanking new Patriot Voices website and found the usual fluffy stuff about defeating Obama and saving the nation.  HOWEVER, down on the lower right hand side is a NPDOR survey widget with some pretty bizarre results for a good conservative website to be publishing.

The widget provides a carousel of survey questions (3 at a clip) and, once you answer you get to see the results for those 3 questions.  For me, this exercise resulted in the entertaining juxtaposition of the following glob from Patriot Voices Mission Statement:

We stand for the defeat of Barack Obama and those who support his radical agenda. We cannot afford four more years of his disastrous policies.

To the immediate left of a survey result showing that 81% of those surveyed feel that President Obama is doing an excellent job.

I scrolled through about 30 questions and found that ALL responses were quite Liberal in nature, which is hardly the “Echo Chamber” effect that most conservative sites strive to achieve.

My conclusions:  either Sanctorum is subcontracting staffers from the Romney campaign to build his website and they were too stupid to notice the mismatch between their content/target audience and the survey results on the same page OR they are diabolically clever and believe that the survey results will galvanize their followers into a decisive overthrow of Obama Nation. (I suspect the former). 

At any rate, it’s amusing to spend a half hour on a Sunday afternoon, imagining some Young Republicans’ heads exploding as they fidget with the widget.  Enjoy!

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