Santorum: "We've been suckin' HARD...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...on a swizzle stick, just tryin' to get some AIR through the swizzle stick, to keep alive."

Martin Bashir just played the clip on his show. Santorum was talking about the "struggles" in his campaign.

[tridim]

1. Cheese grits, grits n gravy, grits n shrimp, fried grits, steamed grits..

grits n potatoes, grits with chocolate sauce, grits n grits, roasted grits, grits a la mode, boiled grits...... and on and fucking on.



Clowns will be clowns, I guess.

[Aerows]

3. No. They said "cheesey grits"

Which is nothing I've ever heard of nor any other Southerner. They are "cheese grits". Which proves how out of touch they are if they can't even figure out a bit of southern cuisine that they make so much out of.

Well, that and they haven't got enough sense to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the sole.

[yesphan]

4. Perhaps "cheesey grits" are served

exclusively at the Hilton.

[Aerows]

17. In Montana or Utah.

Not to impugn either state. Texas to Florida in a line gets irritated when a regional delicacy is treated like a microwaved dinner.

[gratuitous]

7. Remember when Obama had orange juice with his breakfast?

My, that was a nine days' wonder for the bulldogs of the Fourth Estate. There was endless speculation about the elitism exhibited by a candidate who would drink orange juice with his breakfast instead of good old All-American Colombian coffee.

[Aerows]

14. :P

'Cheesey Grits' is a tad different. They are grits. With cheese. Or cheese grits.

Or plain grits with Tabasco and cheese. "Cheesey grits" implies that they are some substance like Macaroni and Cheese and not a homemade item.

Maybe you eat "Meat with BBQ-y sauce"? Of "Soup with some clammy chowder stuff in there?"

[gratuitous]

15. I'm just saying

That this gastronomic faux pas is being pretty much overlooked by the same media chuckleheads who couldn't yap enough about how suspicious it was that Obama had orange juice with breakfast. I'm not a Southerner and have little use for grits (so I don't know the crucial difference between cheese grits and cheesey grits), but this sounds like the sort of malaprop for which the popular media would be raking a Democrat over the coals.

[Aerows]

16. It is being overlooked

He rendered a food well eaten in the south as something "childish" and kidified it. From Texas to Florida along the south, I dare you to find someone that treats a hearty meal as a microwave dinner.

Oh wait, that's Mitt Romney. I guess he sees a market in "instant grits" (they take 4 minutes to cook even on quick ones, and only 18 for real ones?), heaven help us.

Like I said, I'm waiting for him to express (fake) delight over meat with "BBQ-y" sauce.

[Aerows]

19. Quick grits are stilled processed

Though you are hard pressed to tell them from traditional 20 minute grits.

Quick ones take 5 minutes; the real thing takes 18-20.

Mitt? He's instant grits.

He's the last person to be discussing anything involving cheese, depth or heartiness. He could kiss my grits.

Uh, I don't swing that way, so he can just kiss a bowl of reconstituted grits and artificial sweetener (butter and salt or cheese - sugar is a no no for grits). Republicans seem to like that.

[11 Bravo]

13. Remember it's Santorum. Are you sure he didn't say, "greasy shits"?

[Initech]

2. If they'd stop making evey god damn issue about religion and morality...

Maybe they wouldn't suck so much. The uber fundie morals and values crowd won big in 2000, but we're tired of their shit in 2012 now. Stop it already, Rick.

[geardaddy]

5. Is his middle name "Felcher?"

[rurallib]

6. naughty, naughty, naughty

[MissMarple]

9. If I google that will the thought police knock on my door?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. Just don't Google it after eating...or maybe on an empty stomach...just don't, period.

Trust me, if you don't already know what it means, you're better off not knowing.

[MissMarple]

11. Thanks, I won't ask the children, either.

[geardaddy]

18. Don't google it.

It's pretty disgusting.

[Champion Jack]

8. Waitin' for the video link...

[notadmblnd]

12. The man is just obsessed with sex,

Surely his wife had sex with him at one point in their lives- they have 5 kids