Santorum In Iowa: "I'm Here!"

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was in Iowa Thursday morning arguing for his role in the future of the Republican party. What has Santorum been up to since failing to win reelection in 2006? Well, googling himself, for one thing. From an interview with Radio Iowa's Kay Henderson:

"I have to tell you I was surprised by the response, just invitations...If you googled 'Santorum in Iowa' before I did that Politico interview, there were 350 items would come up, entries that would come up on the search. I googled it this morning. You know how many came up? Guess....1,360,000 entries! That surprised me, you know, when I see that and when I saw the reaction out there. It's a little, it makes you step back and think when I actually wasn't thinking about it.

"You say I should have been thinking about this long ago. Well, I wasn't. Am I thinking about it seriously now? Well, I'm here.

This anecdote is especially interesting given the first thing that comes up when you google Santorum.

Comments

[cobaltbluedog]

03:34 PM on 10/06/2009

Vote Santorum/Palin '1859'

[SimJack]

01:58 AM on 10/02/2009

Great picture! "I once had an erection this big."

[iMissMollyIvins]

02:03 AM on 10/02/2009

Extenz worked for me, and it can work for you too.

[cobaltbluedog]

03:47 PM on 10/06/2009

LMAO!!!!!!

[iMissMollyIvins]

01:57 AM on 10/02/2009

Santorum to Iowa - I'm here. I'm qu33r. And I hate myself!!!

[sizogee]

01:21 AM on 10/02/2009

That's a nice story about Google, Rick.

But I haven't heard your name on television in a loooong time.

[iceage7]

01:07 AM on 10/02/2009

honestly by 2012 obama will dust these guys. These guys are a joke..joke joke. I can not see any viable rethug to contend with the indominable obama

[EdMuse]

12:39 AM on 10/02/2009

Are you sure? Because you've never been anywhere of relevance yet.

[Chlowina]

12:37 AM on 10/02/2009

Santorum is really a piece of kaka. When he claimed PA as his home and living in VA, the state paid for his kids education in the state of PA eventhough not living here. Also a big discrepancy regarding his so called home and property taxes.

He was proposing a bill putting a cap on medical malpractice claims; however, wifey seemed to have gotten hurt by a chiropractor and needed surgery (which she should have had a while back) and they sued the guy, but before Santorum passed the bill. hhhmmmm

A crook. Just another low life repug crook.

[jimrs]

12:28 AM on 10/02/2009

santorum, palin, bennett, limbaugh, beck, sanford, wilson, etc.
A never ending parade of clowns who are not funny. I don't expect much from any of our politicians
because the system is so corrupt but the republicans are almost uniformly bizzare.
The experiment called democracy is failing.

[jrfunkenstein]

12:21 AM on 10/02/2009

Santorum: I'm here.

Iowans: We're leaving.

[marymadog]

12:21 AM on 10/02/2009

Is he trying to show people how cool he is because he knows how to google? Someone should teach him how to set up a google alert. He should be embarrassed.

[DonJM]

12:16 AM on 10/02/2009

Is he serious? I thought Palin was the bottom of the barrel, but I think Santorum is even a little bit worse!

[KataVideo]

12:15 AM on 10/02/2009

Santorum In Iowa: "I'm Here!"

hide the dogs!

[billysometimes]

01:13 AM on 10/02/2009

Hide the dogs? LOL! Get the baby wipes.

[unwashedmasses]

12:10 AM on 10/02/2009

GO HOME!!!!!!!!

[gschear]

11:54 PM on 10/01/2009

Just ran Rick Santorum through an Internet Anagram generator.

Thousands of very ominous results, such as 'Cranium Stork'. Could this signify "Bird Brained"?

We need to get Oily Taints and the Beckster on this right away!

We need to show the GOP that b@t 5h!t knows no party!

[weatherwaxx]

11:52 PM on 10/01/2009

LOL! If that egotistical twit googled himself (gee, I hope he washed his hands afterward, before he touched anybody else), then he probably found this:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=2301822

Hats off to Dan Savage!