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Your support makes all the difference.Never mind his completely batty views on abortion, gun control, and God; Rick Santorum positively likes the fact that he's not smart. The failed candidate for the Republican nomination told the (clue-in-the-name) Values Voters Summit: "We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite, smart people on our side".
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