VIDEO: Santorum's shout-out to "the men and WOMEN who signed the Declaration of Independence"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Last edited Wed Feb 29, 2012, 08:19 PM - Edit history (1)

Right up there with Palin seeing Russia from her house. ON EDIT to add the video clip (remarks at the 16 minute mark).

[flakey_foont]

1. Is this fellah on drugs?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Didn't Betsy Ross doodle a little flag beside her signature ? nt

[Politicalboi]

19. I believe it was a

Happy Face, with an LOL!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Proving once again that he knows absolutely nothing about American history.

[AsahinaKimi]

29. What is it with these Republicans?

Were these all the guys and girls who messed around during history class? The ones who skipped school.. SERIOUSLY? MEN AND WOMEN WHO SIGNED the Declaration of Independence? This is so beyond dumb ass... I don't know where to begin!

[tallahasseedem]

4. Are you serious?

Please tell me this is a joke!

Yes, it has really gotten that bad if you can actually picture him saying this!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. NO JOKE...they just played the clip on MSNBC.

Matter of fact, they just played it AGAIN as I am typing this.

[tallahasseedem]

16. Oh my Amerigo...

this is just flat-out scary! Thanks for the clarification!

[TwilightGardener]

5. Maybe he thought Button Gwinnet sounded like a gal's name.

Or maybe he thought Betsy Ross was in there somewhere. What a doof.

[Beaverhausen]

6. What? When? Where?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. He's doing damage control on the whole "women" thing.

It was a sound bite played on MSNBC. They showed him talking about his 93 year old mom and then there was the quote about "the men and women who signed the Declaration of Independence." They didn't show an extended clip so it wasn't really framed contextually. But it was all part of damage control, just to show you how much Rick "hearts" women.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Maybe the typist? n/t

[leveymg]

8. Well, they did wear whigs, frilly blouses and button-up knickers . . .

won't see a NASCAR-drivin' Bud-swillin' McManwich Repuglican wearin' that sorta stuff these days. Maybe Sanitarium was confused by the pictures?

[AtomicKitten]

9. LOL. 'Lil Ricky doesn't just step in shit, he resides there.

[hifiguy]

10. The bag of hammers just called to say that

it is nowhere NEAR as dumb as FrothyMix.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. This primary is comedy gold!

I've never laughed so hard over anything political. Even Palin wasn't this funny.

[Botany]

12. If only we had some pictures of the Constitutional Convention

Or a list of the Signers of the Constitution

1 George Washington Virginia
2 George Read [a] Delaware
3 Gunning Bedford, Jr. Delaware
4 John Dickinson Delaware
5 Richard Bassett Delaware
6 Jacob Broom Delaware
7 James McHenry Maryland
8 Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Maryland
9 Daniel Carroll Maryland
10 John Blair Virginia
11 James Madison, Jr. Virginia
12 William Blount North Carolina
13 Richard Dobbs Spaight North Carolina
14 Hugh Williamson North Carolina
15 John Rutledge South Carolina
16 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney South Carolina
17 Charles Pinckney South Carolina
18 Pierce Butler South Carolina
19 William Few Georgia
20 Abraham Baldwin Georgia
21 John Langdon New Hampshire
22 Nicholas Gilman New Hampshire
23 Nathaniel Gorham Massachusetts
24 Rufus King Massachusetts
25 William Samuel Johnson Connecticut
26 Roger Sherman [a][c] Connecticut
27 Alexander Hamilton New York
28 William Livingston New Jersey
29 David Brearley New Jersey
30 William Paterson New Jersey
31 Jonathan Dayton New Jersey
32 Benjamin Franklin [a] Pennsylvania
33 Thomas Mifflin Pennsylvania
34 Robert Morris [a] Pennsylvania
35 George Clymer [a] Pennsylvania
36 Thomas FitzSimons Pennsylvania
37 Jared Ingersoll Pennsylvania
38 James Wilson [a] Pennsylvania
39 Gouverneur Morris Pennsylvania
40 William Jackson [a] Unknown

************
Mr. Frothy you might be right about college being a waste for some people.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

22. See the empty stool - that is where the lady was sitting before they took this picture

Must be on film someplace!!

[bulloney]

23. Look at #8. That signer has Jenifer Maryland in his name. Does that count?

That's two woman-sounding names.

Santorum raises the bar for stupid every day. He makes Palin, Bachmann and Bush the Lesser look like Rhodes Scholars.

[Botany]

24. Palin will always set the standard for dumb

Paul Revere ringing them bells and shooting them guns to tell the English that the Americans
would no let them take their guns away.

[pinboy3niner]

27. The call went far and wide...

[Bluerthanblue]

13. I think he's suddenly trying to inclusive of women-

heard he also said his comment about JFK's speech making him vomit was something he wishes he could un-say.

[Initech]

17. There were no female signers of the declaration.

[Enrique]

18. anyone who knows this isn't true

must be a snob.

[sofa king]

20. Guess he had trouble seeing past the makeup and wigs.

Maybe that's not the first time, either.

[bowens43]

21. Please, please let this man get the nomination........

dumber then a box of rocks doesn't even come close.

[DavidDvorkin]

25. During the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of D-Day

Bill Clinton said something about the men and women who assaulted the beaches.

Trying too hard, in both cases.

[Botany]

26. Nurses were on the beaches w/ in less than 24 hours

[DavidDvorkin]

37. Great, but they weren't in the assault.

[ohheckyeah]

28. Can't wait until the video is available

so it can be splashed all over the internet.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

32. Ask and you shall receive...it happens at the 16 minute mark

He starts talking about the D.O.I. around the 15 minute mark, and drops the bomb at 16. So fat, there's not an edit of just that remark on YouTube, but I'm sure it's in process.

[ohheckyeah]

41. Thanks - it's been disabled here

on DU but you can click on it and it will take you to YouTube.

OMG - that asshole dares to talk about big government that thinks it knows better than us how to run our lives but he's against birth control and tells us sex is not for pleasure but only procreation?

[Rex]

30. Oh come on, everyone knows Susan B. Anthony

and her sister signed the Declaration of Independence and she wasn't even born yet!!!! I believe it was right after Jefferson freed all the slaves and wrote his now famous pamplet, Wealth of Nations. This, of course, was all going on while we were fighting our first civil war (the secret one).

[malaise]

31. Seriously it was a fugging disaster

and you're right.

[Justice wanted]

33. ... WHY DON"T WE HAVE TEST BEFORE THESE PEOPLE RUN ANY OFFICE?!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. That test would only attract the "snobs" who graduated college.

[Justice wanted]

35. Silly me I guess my "snobish" bachelor's degree keeps me from thinking about "THE average" person

would have a chance to past the test with basic history and civics classes taught in high school

[Justice wanted]

36. Went to you tube to hear it-wasn't playing-Anyways I don't know what SACRES me more: The fact

He said men and women OR the fact the audience just let him get away with that. NO ONE on that stage showed any reaction that showed they questioned that statement.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

39. Yeah, I see now that they did the "embedding disabled by request" thing

At least the link works. I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before someone posts the "Declaration" excerpt by itself.

[dflprincess]

38. And aren't his kids home schooled?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

40. Yes, at taxpayers' expense.

The daughter and wife had that hideous grin through the entire 16 minute clip so who knows if they heard the gaffe?

[krispos42]

42. Can I get 4 tuba notes and a sorrowful trombone slide?

Thank you.
















(You heard it in your head, didn't you???)