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Rick Santorum's First Campaign Move - Run Away From Campaign Slogan
posted by: Robin Marty
Senator Rick Santorum has made it clear long before his potential presidential run that he's not a very big fan of homosexuals -- a fact that he has made public so loud and so often that gay advice columnist Dan Savage retaliated by turning him into an internet joke.
His feelings don't appear to have softened in the least since then, if his latest campaign appearance proves anything. When asked at a stop what it meant that his campaign slogan was taken from a poem by Langston Hughes, an African American Communist poet known for fighting for civil and gay rights, Santorum began to quickly back away from the branding.
Via the Union Leader:
Santorum by and large stayed on message but was tripped up a bit when a student asked him if he knew that the choice of his slogan, "Fighting to make America America again," was borrowed from the "pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes."
"No I had nothing to do with that," Santorum said. "I didn't know that. And the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn't inform me that it came from that, if it in fact came from that."
The student, whose name was not immediately available, was referring to the poem "Let America Be America Again." When asked a short time later what the campaign slogan meant to him, Santorum said, "well, I'm not too sure that's my campaign slogan, I think it's on a web site."
It was also printed on the campaign literature handed out before the speech.
I'm almost positive I hear Dan Savage chuckling somewhere right now.
Rick Santorum's First Campaign Move - Run Away From Campaign Slogan
posted by: Robin Marty
Senator Rick Santorum has made it clear long before his potential presidential run that he's not a very big fan of homosexuals -- a fact that he has made public so loud and so often that gay advice columnist Dan Savage retaliated by turning him into an internet joke.
His feelings don't appear to have softened in the least since then, if his latest campaign appearance proves anything. When asked at a stop what it meant that his campaign slogan was taken from a poem by Langston Hughes, an African American Communist poet known for fighting for civil and gay rights, Santorum began to quickly back away from the branding.
Via the Union Leader:
Santorum by and large stayed on message but was tripped up a bit when a student asked him if he knew that the choice of his slogan, "Fighting to make America America again," was borrowed from the "pro-union poem by the gay poet Langston Hughes."
"No I had nothing to do with that," Santorum said. "I didn't know that. And the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn't inform me that it came from that, if it in fact came from that."
The student, whose name was not immediately available, was referring to the poem "Let America Be America Again." When asked a short time later what the campaign slogan meant to him, Santorum said, "well, I'm not too sure that's my campaign slogan, I think it's on a web site."
It was also printed on the campaign literature handed out before the speech.
I'm almost positive I hear Dan Savage chuckling somewhere right now.
