AMERICAN LUNATICS.
AMERICAN HERO.
Because literally EVERYTHING the GOP does, without fail, when left to its own devices, is insane and reads like parodic villainy were it in a fictional context, it’s not surprising that presidential candidate, Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum, would disown his own campaign slogan when told by a student that a gay liberal poet came up with it.
His campaign website features the slogan, “Fighting to Make America America Again” (by which I think he means that America is not America when there’s a black guy in charge). Because the freak who cuddles with a dead fetus he stores alongside the Nutty Buddies in his freezer is not a very good politician, he was “tripped up” by a student who asked him about about his campaign slogan. It seems the eloquent turn of phrase was borrowed from a poem by from the great Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes – black, pro-union, pro-immigrant and avowed leftist – who was probably gay. The title of poem is ‘Let America Be America Again.’” The freak immediately distanced himself from it.
“No I had nothing to do with that, I didn’t know that. And the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn’t inform me that it came from that, if it in fact came from that.”
Oh, Rick. You have barely gotten over your little google problem, now you immediately disown your own campaign slogan, and deny it’s even your slogan, because the guy who originally penned it was gay? Asked for clarification, the former senator laughed and added that his campaign staff “didn’t inform” him about the origin of the phrase. However, Santorum said he has read “some” poems by Hughes. “I’ve read some of his poems. I’m not a big poetry guy so I can’t say I have a favorite poet, sorry”.
When asked what the campaign slogan meant to him, Santorum said, “well, I’m not too sure that is my campaign slogan, I think it’s on a web site.” It was also printed on the campaign literature handed out before the speech and plastered all over the room under the official Santorum campaign posters.
Rick Santorum doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Langston Hughes. He should not be able to even think about Langston Hughes in his filthy, feeble, fetid little mind. Hughes’ poem reads as a sort of prebuttal to Santorum and his kind’s fantasy of restoring America to its mythical former glory. American was not that glorious for plenty of Americans, America was never America for plenty of Americans. (“There’s never been equality for me, / Nor freedom in this ‘homeland of the free.'”) I guess you can believe that he actually had no role in crafting his own campaign motto. But even more psychotic is how he— who has made a career demonizing the gay community — recoils in horror when learning that anything associated with him has roots in the gay community. It’s always hilarious watching a self-righteous moral coward trying to disassociate himself from the truth, or from consequences of his choices.
