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Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-longer-his-primary-concern dept.

bobwrit writes with this excerpt from CNN: "Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of 'prayer and thought,' effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney. Santorum made his announcement after the weekend hospitalization of his 3-year-old daughter Isabella, and in the face of tightening poll numbers in Pennsylvania — the state he represented as a U.S. senator — ahead of the April 24 primary. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we made the decision to get into this race around our kitchen table, against all the odds,' Santorum told a news conference, flanked by emotional family members. 'We made a decision over the weekend that while the presidential race for us is over, and I will suspend my campaign effective today, we are not done fighting.'"

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  1. Re:News for Nerds? by _xeno_ · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes, but think of all the tech implications.

    Such as, uh...

    Didn't Santorum want to censor porn online? So I guess our porn is safe. Also, Google can now safely restore "santorum" to its original forthy meaning, and we can stop hearing about some candidate no one cares about when searching for it.

    That's seriously all I've got for why this would be "news for nerds" in any way.

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  2. Re:"Nerds don't care about politics" -- tomhath by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Frothy-Mix? Don't like his politics or values? Fine! We can debate that on its own merit. But fuck you and your new vernacular of his name, Santorum.

    I personally can't stand Obama's ideology, but you don't see me making personal insulting comments about the man. And yet, the "Left" is supposed to be so intellectually superior. Or so we're led to believe by the mass leftist media and academia. Whatever.

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  3. Re:Herp, ah, derp. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Troll

    "We made a decision over the weekend that while the presidential race for us is over, and I will suspend my campaign effective today, we are not done fighting.'"

    Fighting for what? Against the ideals of your own Church that basically came out and said that universal health care is a right? That evolution is just fine? That women don't have to be barefoot and in the kitchen? That the world is older than 6000 years? That social justice is a good idea?

    Keep fuckin' that chicken, Rick.

    I suspect he's going to keep fighting certain urges that make him a homophobe.

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