Santorum Calls Limbaugh Comments 'Absurd'

CNN Political Unit ^ | March 2nd, 2012 | Staff

[BarnacleCenturion]

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum labeled Rush Limbaugh "absurd" over disparaging remarks from the radio talk show host directed at a law student who testified before a House panel in support of access to contraceptives.

"He's being absurd, but that's you know, an entertainer can be absurd," Santorum told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday. "He's in a very different business than I am."

[old school]

What? The Pelosi/Fluke histrionics wasn’t theater of the absurd? Rush was merely exposing the insanity of it all and Santorum calls that absurd? I never thought that Santorum was a straight-shooter anyhow!

[stayathomemom]

Sounds like a measured, good answer to a gotcha question to me.

[stayathomemom]

Sounds like a measured, good answer to a gotcha question to me.

[dforest]

Santorum didn’t butt in. He was asked by Blitzer and all he did was respond with what Rush says all the time.

He uses the absurd to make a point.

Butting in would have meant he sought out someone and offered his critique without being asked.

[driftdiver]

yes Santorum

[Walmartian]

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[Son House]

Jimmy Fallon Embarrassed Michele Bachmann Scandal
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[LibLieSlayer]

Well Santorum just lost any chance of me supporting him. I have a line in the sand these days that cannot and must not be crossed... Santorum just crossed it. It is now Newt or I write in Sarah Palin’s name. This guy does not deserve the nomination and would turn on us a quickly as he has turned on Rush.

LLS

[old school]

You have to ask yourself, who is it that more conservatives trust-Rush or Santorum? Santorum isn’t quick-witted enough to side-step lib traps. The “community organizer” would cream him!

[Pinkbell]

What is he supposed to do? Is he supposed to say he agrees with the comments and that the woman is a slut? The libs are already painting him as anti-woman. If he did that, it would only add more fuel to the libs’ fire which is spread across MSM outlets. The same “Little Ricky” haters here criticizing him would then use his comments of agreement to paint him as a Catholic extremist who focuses too much on the social issues, is anti-woman, and can’t keep his mouth shut. He’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. The man can’t win, and you know it.

[Sans-Culotte]

Ricky has no balls.

Did you read more than the headline? The word "absurd" is taken out of context in the headline.

[Christie at the beach]

No, Ricky, we don’t want to pay for women having their sex and buying their pills to do so. Pay for those pills on their own. That girl is trashy. This should had been right with your convictions. This is why I don’t support you. Trying to make points with the establishment is a sell out.

[madmaximus]

I’ve known all along Trick Ricky Dicky is a fraud. FURS!

[Pinkbell]

See post #30.

[Redleg Duke]

And Santorum is rapidly becoming inconsequential.

[LibLieSlayer]

It is to me Crip... a true Conservative would use this example to teach... but he took the easy way out by accepting the leftist media template. He would cut your throat or mine just as quickly as he did Rush's.

LLS

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing that if you were to ask Rush if he thought his comment was absurd he’d probably say yes and explain, “That’s what I do”.

Back when he was defending Bill Maher over the “brave terrorist” remarks that got Maher fired, Rush said the comments were over the line but explained that controversial comments are what pays the bills for all of them.

[McGruff]

“He's being absurd, but that's you know, an entertainer can be absurd,” Santorum told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday. “He's in a very different business than I am.”

Hey Rush. That what's the political establishment thinks you are. An "entertainer". Get on The Team. The Conservative Dream team.

[Pinkbell]

See post #30. I’ll also add that you darn well that Rick Santorum has been a leader in opposing Obama’s contraception mandate. He is even personally opposed to using contraception. Not long ago, you Newt supporters were hating on Rick and painting him as an extremist too focused on social issues for his opposition. You can’t have it both ways.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Thank you for that dis ambiguous explanation/clarification in regards to what your hero was ACTUALLY saying or intended to say, as well as the usual apology for anything/everything in the very near future for What other blunder/blunders Santorum will find himself mired in........

(This blanket explanation/excuse is redeemable for use in all future Santorum blunders and is non transferable to any other candidates for explicit use, so sayeth the Lord!)