Meat & Potatoes

meat and potatoes
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Meat is good. Potatoes are good. But if they're all you eat, they'll kill you.

Rick Santorum might want to keep this in mind as he runs for re-election to the Senate. In an article in the The New York Times, Tricky Rick is quoted twice comparing himself to meat & potatoes.

What does Tricky Rick consider his meat & potatoes these days? The softer side of his bigotry. On the campaign trail he's handing out a flyer called "50 Things You May Not Know About Rick Santorum." Number 2 is his support for colon cancer screenings, and Number 4 highlights his work with Bono to eliminate world poverty. I rooted around for a few more of the fifty things, but Rick's own campaign website doesn't include the complete list. So unless we get the flyer itself, we may never know those 50 Things.

But, come on, Tricky Rick. Do these 50 Things really add up to be your meat & potatoes? They're more like the bovine growth hormone in your beef. The genetic modification of your potatoes. Maybe -- just maybe -- those two little carrots offering some vitamin A on top of your meat & potatoes.

Sorry, Tricky Rick. Your meat is the money -- heading up K Street lobbying efforts and getting into bed with the corporate interests -- and your potatoes are the hates -- hating the queers, hating the immigrants, hating the women's rights, hating the liberal media.

Your meat & potatoes will kill you come election time, Senator Santorum, as they certainly should. Even if your opponent is the worst kind of feckless Democrat. But that's a posting for another time.