How Rick Santorum Is Making His “Google Problem” Worse

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Pretty F'ing hilarious! Be sure to click on the link for the explanation.

US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made a surprise leap ahead to practically tie Mitt Romney in yesterday’s Iowa caucus results. Now people are searching to find out more about him and discovering THAT result which makes comedy show hosts like Jon Stewart giggle. But rather than blame Google (or Bing), as Santorum has in the past, much of the fault remains with his own campaign.
Searching For Santorum

Here’s how Google Trends currently looks:
http://searchengineland.com/how-rick-santorum-is-making-his-google-problem-worse-106665

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. lol

dumbass.

[w8liftinglady]

2. all I can say is "Google Santorum Dog"

31,000,000 results.

[HillWilliam]

3. Which reminds me to search for Santorum again

on every swingin' computer, phone, and tab in the house.

[w8liftinglady]

4. hehe... you read my mind

http://articles.cnn.com/2003-04-23/politics/santorum.gays_1_santorum-traditional-heterosexual-relationships-homosexuality?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

[HillWilliam]

7. Y'know what they say about great minds

running down the same gutters

[w8liftinglady]

8. and this... from 2003

http://www.salon.com/2003/04/26/santorum_quotes/singleton/

[w8liftinglady]

10. and,of course, Rachel explaining it all

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/28/rachel-maddow-rick-santorum-google-problem_n_868430.html

[w8liftinglady]

11. not to mention the fact that there are 3,200,000 video responses

http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8#q=santorum+dog&start=10&hl=en&sa=N&rlz=1R2ADRA_enUS413&site=webhp&prmd=imvnsu&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&ei=rt4ET7SGJuWZ2QWCrIiXAg&ved=0CDIQqwQ4Cg&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=c953f7288cef0816&biw=1152&bih=518

[rhett o rick]

5. I certainly dont want to make the problem worse for Ricky so what shouldnt I be

doing on google?

[w8liftinglady]

6. Don't look up santorum dog,that's for sure

[rhett o rick]

13. Well maybe just once to see what I am not supposed to be seeing. nm

[Electric Monk]

21. This thread we're in right now is the #10 google result for a google search for santorum dog

I just found a new one I hadn't seen before: Dog pee can't stop Santorum
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/05/28/googling-rick-santorum-not-something-you-do-in-front-of-your-mom
http://www.dogpeecantstopsantorum.com/

[w8liftinglady]

23. LOL...I wish they had a pic of a dog wearing a Santorum shirt peeing

[w8liftinglady]

22. oh,hell... there are "Santorum " Dog t-shirts

http://www.zazzle.com/santorum+pet+clothing

[REP]

9. Hey, look who made the blog today!

http://blog.spreadingsantorum.com/ (scroll down)

[Initech]

12. Colbert read the definition of Santorum on his show last night.

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. You've seen it. You can't unsee it.

Which made me wonder why the M$M was so fixated on using the term "Santorum Surges" and its many variants all day yesterday. I don't know that I could've chosen a better term than "surge" for what happened, but still...

[11 Bravo]

24. He didn't just "surge", he "surged from behind". You can't make this shit up!

[Codeine]

15. People really need to stop equating that man with a mix of shit and anal lube.

Seriously. Every time we imply that Rick Santorum's last name can be used as a euphemism for foamy, shit-laden anal lube, we debase ourselves. Reminding people that, on the internet, Santorum can mean lube combined with feces may be amusing and smirk-worthy, but really, the "Santorum means shit-filled ass lube" meme has been repeated for years, and the idea that Santorum's name is slang for frothy feces and lube hasn't stopped values-conscious GOP primary voters from taking another look at the guy.

So please. Stop saying that "Santorum means frothy feces-filled lubricant", especially on the internet, where those hurtful words can be picked up and further spread by search engines.

(shamelessly stolen from another DUer)

[w8liftinglady]

16. you are absolutely correct.

Especially,don't share on Facebook or Twitter... It could go viral.

[HillWilliam]

17. Well done

[w8liftinglady]

19. there are over 7000 results on google that make that association...

[customerserviceguy]

18. Ok, this thing is indeed the elephant in the room

And like everyone else here, yes, I think it's funny.

But practically, what effect do you think it will have on the GOPuke voter base? They've only got a few choices:

1) They can turn away from him because of it, shunning someone who let himself be punked by a gay activist.

2) They can pretend they're oblivious to it, and ignore it, never speaking of it with each other.

3) They can rally around him, it's "proof" that he's been "right" for a long time, and that only shameful libertines would stoop to something so completely crass and filthy.

My bet is on choices 2, and especially 3.

[w8liftinglady]

20. I know... This is just catharsis.. hehe

[w8liftinglady]

25. LOL...This article on Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/04/idUS429187670520120104

Googling 'Santorum' Leads to Nationwide Ewwwws


Americans who take to the Internet to learn more about Rick Santorum following his strong finish in the Iowa caucuses are about to discover his Google problem.

It comes courtesy of sex advice columnist and soon-to-be MTV star Dan Savage, who in 2003, in response to comments Santorum made about gays, asked his readers to help come up with a disgusting sexual reference to be named after the then-Pennsylvania senator.


What they came up with was this, which is now the top Google response for Santorum, and is posted at the website spreadingsantorum.com:

"Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum."

[w8liftinglady]

26. Oh,hell... now Keith Olbermann is alluding to "frothing"