[lbo-talk] the real meaning of Santorum

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> This is from Ken Silverstein's listing of the 10 dumbest members of 
> Congress in the March 1998 Progressive 
> <http://www.progressive.org/dimmarch.htm>:
> 
> >No. 1
> >
> >SENATOR RICK SANTORUM
> >
> >Republican, Pennsylvania
> >
> >The boy blunder of American politics and a one-time lobbyist for the
> >World Wrestling Federation, thirty-nine-year-old Santorum repeatedly 
> >humiliates himself in public. "Santorum?" Senator Bob Kerrey once 
> >commented. "Is that Latin for asshole?"

But he is very popular in central PA, perhaps because he resembles his
electorate so well.  As someone once observed, Pennsylvania is
Philadelphia on the right, Pittsburgh on the left, and Alabama in
between.

Wojtek