Rick Santorum stops young man from bowling with pink ball

FM 104.7 NewsTalk Radio ^ | 3-29-2012 | staff report

[smoothsailing]

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Rick Santorum stops young man from bowling with pink ball

"Friends don't let friends use pink balls."

(NEWSER) -- Rick Santorum bowls a good game, but gay rights groups say he talks an offensive one. "You’re not gonna' use the pink ball. We’re not gonna' let you do that, not on camera," he told a young man while bowling with college Republicans in Wisconsin yesterday, the Raw Story reports. "Friends don't let friends use pink balls," he added. Critics say Santorum's remarks are just the latest in a long line of insensitive statements.

"He’s proven that he thinks LGBT people are second-class citizens not worthy of dignity or respect," says a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign gay-rights group. "In this case, he’s advancing tired gender norms by implying a boy should be ashamed or embarrassed to use a certain color bowling ball." Santorum has been bowling his way through Wisconsin ahead of the state's April 3 primary, and has challenged Mitt Romney to a bowl-off, according to theWashington Examiner.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

LOL!

This fool has a gaffe a minute. I’m sure after the press gets done with this current gem, that will be one of the excuses that santo and his worshipers will use to “splain” it.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

ROFLOL!

[Scythian]

OH GOSH, THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS !!

I'm going to bowl with my pink bowling ball while wearing a hoodie ...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Really? Santorum Derangement Syndrome so profound that you honestly think THIS is an issue?

Obama, given “space”, wants to give away our nukes to the Russians; Mr. Frontrunner is proud his dad closed American Motors factories...and a too light, smaller drilled, bowling ball is a cause of concern?

[JSDude1]

All about nothing.

[Guenevere]

Sheeesh...it must be a slow news day.....

...the media needs to get a life

[McGruff]

He's would be so easy for Obama to beat. Just portray him as some religious nutcase.
Santorum would ban all birth control

[Magic Fingers]

“Obama, given “space”, wants to give away our nukes to the Russians; Mr. Frontrunner is proud his dad closed American Motors factories...and a too light, smaller drilled, bowling ball is a cause of concern?”

What?? It’s not a concern to me, it’s apparently a concern to Rick (unless he was joking).

[Lazlo in PA]

Let me tell you something. I don’t give a rats anything about Zimmerman and the Hoodie. Santorums judgement on that is just as valid as anyone elses in that local matter. In other words, who cares.

[longtermmemmory]

I can’t think of a NORMAL straight father that would allow or condone a pink bowling ball for his son. (then again a normal mother would not allow it either)

A freakshow left wing “guardian unit” might out of agenda leftism but those are only seen in MSM reports never reality.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Rick must be polling better in Wisconsin...so que up the perpetually outraged.

[Magic Fingers]

I thought you’d enjoy that ;-)

[Eva]

Did you ever stop to think that the color of the ball was in indication that the finger holds and weight of the ball were were more suited to a female, probably, a young female?

[Guenevere]

YEP!!!!! :)

[Yaelle]

I disagree with santorum here. I don’t think the colors kids choose shOuld matter. Ridiculous.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Yea...but on a conservative forum that this is even being discussed is SDS. Sometimes it’s as simple as a joke; or as fundamental (to the event at hand) as an incorrect item (wrong size/wrong weight).

Any wonder WHY a lot of good people will NOT consider running when something like THIS becomes a topic and a concern.

[so_real]

Because? Santorum espoused a preference for manly balls? (Gotta admit, that's funny.) Or, because the liberal media and anti-Santorum groups think this will actually gain traction against him? Or, because your fellow FReepers are poking fun at this nonsense?

[Westbrook]

> Rick is risking losing the fag vote!

Can’t lose something you never had.

[ArrogantBustard]

Us old farts can get away with stuff that kids can’t.

It’s one of the perks of being an old fart.

[texanred]

And yet the boy was able to use it which suggests his fingers were not too large for the smaller holes.

I am a pink ball veteran but I also have a very light frame, thin wrists, and my height is best described as “fun size”