The look on his face says it all. This odd encounter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is made all the odder by the mini-scandal involving whether or not Santorum took Lohan's photo. Read More ›
But this video is being passed around as though he did. From a recent speech in Wisconsin, here's Rick Santorum getting tripped up while speaking about President Obama and letting slip what sounds like “nig.” Read More ›
A source tells BuzzFeed the Budget Chairman's staff told Rick Santorum he'll back the frontrunner. Read More ›
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum runs on a platform of smaller government and less spending. But he's also seen by some as a “big government conservative,” and in a 2008 interview at the Republican National Convention, Santorum said: “Republicans, to our credit, have morphed away form the Goldwater idea that government just needs to be small.” Read More ›
The former Speaker went to bat for his now-bitter rival. “The most important U.S. Senate race in the country this year.” Read More ›
I know it's only March, but I think we can call it. We were supposed to be talking about iPads, remember? Read More ›
“Is Rick Santorum electable? Remember his last Senate race? … By historic margins, Pennsylvania voters rejected Rick Santorum,” reads the script of Mitt Romney'slatest attack ad on Rick Santorum in Illinois. But Romney is no stranger to blowout defeats of his own in a race for Senate. Romney, like Santorum lost by 17% in a Senate election, in his 1994 race vs. Ted Kennedy. Romney, however, lost big in a historically good year for Republicans, while Santorum lost big in a historically bad year for Republicans. Here are the numbers. Read More ›
The candidate has been talking about Obamacare more and more these days, and advisers hint he'll rely on health care on the trail more from here on out. Read More ›
The former Pennsylvania Senator likes to throw mud on health care, but is he exempt from previous support for the mandate? Read More ›
Romney campaign says he is forming another pro-Obama Super PAC. Read More ›
Santorum campaign says they are behind robocalls to get Democrats to turn out and vote against Romney. Romney aide tweets “Fraud.” Read More ›
Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been making the rounds in the Netherlands virally. In an interview earlier this month, Santorum used outdated and exaggerated statistics to make factually inaccurate claims about assisted suicide in the Netherlands, sparking outrage in the lowland country. But a 2009 speech the Arizona Republican party, unearthed by BuzzFeed, shows Santorum has been making the claims for years, using as it part of his pitch to stop health care reform and the degradation of American values. Read More ›
This landed today in the mailbox of an Ohio Republican, who sent it to BuzzFeed. “No one's excited about Mitt Romney,” says the mailer from the Red, White, and Blue Fund, blasting him as “a weak candidate, who passed RomneyCare, supports cap-and-trade, and has flip-flopped on so many issues that no one knows where he really stands.” Read More ›
In 2006 the Republican Presidential candidate proudly featured the endorsement of the Republican turned Democrat Senator from Pennsylvania. Romney hit Santorum tonight for his endorsement of Specter over the more conservative Pat Toomey in the 2004 Republican primary. Read More ›
Rick Santorum yesterday compared the danger posed by Barack Obama's Administration to the “great peril” of the second World War, and warned of the time when Americans were complacent about “this guy over in Europe.” He's gotten himself into trouble with Hitler references before, as in this 2005 floor speech, when he compared Senate Democrats to the Fuhrer. Read More ›
Aspirin between the Knees is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Aspirin between the Knees. View Topic ›
Santorum tries to shake things up with a new addition to the Santorum wardrobe, but CNN’s commentators are not impressed. “He should stick to the sweater vest.” Read More ›
In case you haven't noticed, Rick Santorum looks exactly like Jerry in season five, episode eight of “Seinfeld.” The episode's title, appropriately enough, is “The Barber.” Read More ›
This election cycle, Santorum’s views on LGBT rights have come to define him – and may ruin his camapign. It's his own private cage aux folles. Read More ›
It's unclear what a moneybomb is exactly, but I'm excited to see Santorum's C.U.M. blow through this whole election. Read More ›
On primary day, the campaign's disorganization has reporters running across the state for naught. Read More ›
She talks about the diagnosis that her daughter Bella was given as a newborn. Read More ›
Romney casts the president as a well-intentioned incompetent. How a town hall meeting in Charleston illustrated the divide in the GOP. Read More ›
Here are a bunch of quotes from our future President paired with New Yorker cartoons. Some of them actually make a lot more sense this way. Read More ›
That's right. Mitt Romney has an ad on Dan Savage's favorite website, “Spreading Santorum”. Also worth noting is that the ad is from Romney's campaign (as opposed to a PAC). (Thanks to Gabriel Laks for the heads up!) Read More ›
If you plan on staying up late and watching coverage of the first-in-the-nation Republican caucus, you're going to need this. Keep these rules and a 12-pack handy as you wade through merciless hours of punditry and spin-doctoring. Read More ›
That was almost too easy. (via msnbc.msn.com) Read More ›
Absurd excuse for flip flopping on an important issue for the sake of wooing Iowa evangelicals? Or the absurdest? A quote from Rick Perry explaining why he changed his mind from allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest, a position he held as recently as last month, to wanting a total ban. Read More ›
Mr. Santorum that is not a sign that you should ever pose with. Ever. Read More ›
