One Hit Wonder-Bread
Okay, Okay, I admit it — Buddy has officially given us the worst pun in the campaign thus far. She’s definitely in the dog house! But, I am beginning to believe there is some method to Santorum’s madness other than his continuing obsession with stripping all rights and dignity from the GLBT community or his fight with Dan Savage.
When I was on the High School Debate Team (back when we used to ride our dinosaurs to tournaments) one tactic we used was to say one outrageous and easily argued thing in the midst of our plan. The other team would spend all their time pointing out how wrong it was or challenging it and forget to hit the other 15 points of our plan. So, in the end – we would drop the one argument and show the judge how the rest of our case was essentially unchallenged. It didn’t work every time – but it worked a lot – particularly with new teams, or unqualified judges.
I think that’s part of Team Santorum’s plan. Keep the evangelicals happy by bashing the gays and pushing marriage, pro-life, and “values” at every turn — and no one will ever ask about his voting record, the hypocrisy of his time in congress, or the fact he was part of a large effort to marry the republican party to big business. In fact, in researching for this comic – I had to look really hard to find articles about him that weren’t about his gay hate. He’s everything the Tea Party claims to be against, but who’s gonna know as long as he’s crying about how mean gay people have been to him and his family?
Do our country a favor. Whenever he comes up in conversation – don’t carry on about how unfair to GLBT folks he is — point out his hypocrisy, theocracy and questionable ties – so people will start asking the right questions!
I’m jealous. I never had the chance to take Debate because I was in too many other activites.
However, I do remember in Freshman English they talked about using a Red Herring, which kinda sounds like what your team used to do. My memory fails me, but Kudos for all the wins. 
Dan – sounds like you had a life in high school. That’s a good thing. I was officially in the nerd herd – so my only activities were Debate team, Chess team, Math club, and Games Club (playing Dungeons and Dragons after school in the chemistry lab).
I do think Santorum sincerely hates gays, and has a personal grudge he is acting out in his politics but I think he is using that grandstand to hide all the glaring deficiencies in his record – very much in red herring fashion.
I was a kind of a geek too. I was in Orchestra, Writers Club, Jazz band, pit Orchestra, I also played D&D…but not at school.
Wow — band geeks – quite a specialized field – and a fellow D&Der as well. As long as you weren’t a dungeons and dragons dwarf character – we’ll get along fine.
(just kidding, i’ve been working on my dwarven prejudices for a while now…). 
Love it! Gay the prey away. give Buddie an extra doggie biscuit tonight.
Buddy appreciates the extra snack, Hansi and I appreciate your comment. Thanks!