Policy-wise, it makes a lot more sense to compare Robert to Bush. Both liked wars. Both left their country with massive debt. Both were considered likeable guys by their supporters, but were completely unfit to rule. Both drink a lot of alcohol.
But, the Hodor comparison really was too good to pass up.
I'm not so sure it's unfair to Renly, who not only married his beard but, despite her exhortations, is terrified to admit his homosexuality even to her, and who fundamentally truly is a very bad person, who has NO idea what he's doing or what he's committing his followers to.
Much like Senator Sexpoop[1].
[1]: Once again, seriously, "Santorum"? The dude chose THAT as his nom de run, and expected to be taken seriously? And then WAS briefly taken seriously? Sad.
Yup! Dan Savage, one of my favourite sex and relationship advice columnists, started it. I was a reader at the time and still am.
"After Rick Santorum, then a United States senator from Pennsylvania, made comments to a reporter comparing homosexual sex to bestiality and incest in 2003, Savage assailed Santorum in his column. Later, he sponsored a contest that led to the term santorum being used to refer to "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes a byproduct of anal sex"." (From Wikipedia's Dan Savage article.)
Also: Here is the original column where readers got to vote on what the new definition of 'Santorum' should be, here is the website he created after they settled on the winner, which is still the #1 Google search result when you search for "Santorum", and here is the Wikipedia entry for the "santorum" neologism.
Rick Santorum has tried to have the website taken down numerous times since it started.
(Savage is also the origin of the term "pegging", after he realized there wasn't a name for the act yet.)
I maintain that once the election is over, Senator Sexpoop is going to pull off his mask, reveal that he is secretly Sasha Baron Cohen, and ask how the fuck anyone ever thought he was serious, I mean, just look at his NAME, what the HELL.
This will be the best press conference ever. I am looking forward to it.
Nah. It was a perfectly fine last name -- certainly way less weird than some -- until he started talking shit and people decided to troll him into submission.
Public mass trolling of the guy for almost a decade, aborting his presidential aspirations at the time, and forever linking his name to a gross thing that comes from something he hates? SO not better than that. *grin*
His presidential aspirations of the time were a joke - even without spreadingsantorum.com, his consituents hated him so much that, AS AN INCUMBENT, he lost by 17%.
His career was over, then and there. Nobody who loses re-election by double-digits gets to run for anything real in the future. Everything he's done since has been bilking the ignorant and angling for a Wingnut Welfare spot on Fox.
He may not have any idea what he's doing, but it's a leap to go from there to "fundamentally very bad", especially given what the range of "very bad" can cover in this show. I think he's still the only noble we've ever seen complain about how smallfolk are treated. Okay, yes, he hasn't *thought* about how what he's doing is going to fall out, just believes he's doing a good and right thing, but you can apply that description to Ned Stark. Could have. Anyway.
(It's the wink-wink, nudge-nudge vibe of "came from behind", if you know what I mean, that makes me look at that line funny. I think it'd bug me less without the quotes.)
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Date: 2012-04-26 07:57 pm (UTC)"Make 'em laugh it out their noses. That's our motto" -- DSC
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:08 pm (UTC)http://i.imgur.com/8T2eq.jpg
There must be a few variations making the rounds.
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:42 pm (UTC)But, the Hodor comparison really was too good to pass up.
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:48 pm (UTC)That seems.... wrong.
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Date: 2012-04-27 01:15 am (UTC)Much like Senator Sexpoop[1].
[1]: Once again, seriously, "Santorum"? The dude chose THAT as his nom de run, and expected to be taken seriously? And then WAS briefly taken seriously? Sad.
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:42 am (UTC)"After Rick Santorum, then a United States senator from Pennsylvania, made comments to a reporter comparing homosexual sex to bestiality and incest in 2003, Savage assailed Santorum in his column. Later, he sponsored a contest that led to the term santorum being used to refer to "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes a byproduct of anal sex"." (From Wikipedia's Dan Savage article.)
Also: Here is the original column where readers got to vote on what the new definition of 'Santorum' should be, here is the website he created after they settled on the winner, which is still the #1 Google search result when you search for "Santorum", and here is the Wikipedia entry for the "santorum" neologism.
Rick Santorum has tried to have the website taken down numerous times since it started.
(Savage is also the origin of the term "pegging", after he realized there wasn't a name for the act yet.)
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:57 am (UTC)This will be the best press conference ever. I am looking forward to it.
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Date: 2012-04-27 12:09 pm (UTC)His career was over, then and there. Nobody who loses re-election by double-digits gets to run for anything real in the future. Everything he's done since has been bilking the ignorant and angling for a Wingnut Welfare spot on Fox.
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Date: 2012-04-27 11:02 am (UTC)(It's the wink-wink, nudge-nudge vibe of "came from behind", if you know what I mean, that makes me look at that line funny. I think it'd bug me less without the quotes.)