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🗓️ 27 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Love cast at savage. |
| 0:03.7 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary or if you're looking for sexual harmony. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, there's nothing you can't |
| 0:18.0 | on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:29.1 | So way, way back in 2012, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, my own college roommate, was running for president and for five minutes he was the front runner which resulted |
| 0:36.2 | in a lot of santoram surging headlines and if you knew you knew and the people people who wrote those Santoram surges in Iowa headlines, |
| 0:46.2 | they were media people, so they knew. |
| 0:49.9 | Anyway, back in 2012 and 2008, |
| 0:52.2 | the Republican primaries were shit shows. |
| 0:55.0 | Clown car pile-ups on the interstate. |
| 0:58.0 | Joke candidate after joke candidate would briefly surge in the polls, |
| 1:02.1 | be pronounced the front runner, get a couple of magazine |
| 1:04.5 | covers, and the kind of scrutiny that front runners are subject to, and then fade away. |
| 1:09.7 | Michelle Bachman, Hermann Kane, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, whatever happened to her, Rick Santorum, all briefly |
| 1:17.0 | front runners. |
| 1:18.4 | But in 2008 and 2012, Republican voters came to their senses. |
| 1:22.1 | They flirted with lunatics like Bachman and Santoram, but nominated |
| 1:26.6 | John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, which is why everyone in 2016 was for the longest time convinced that Trump would not be |
| 1:35.8 | the Republican nominee like Bachman or Santor or Giuliani. Trump may have been in the lead, |
| 1:41.1 | but surely Republican voters would come to their senses and nominate |
| 1:44.4 | some governor or senator, not the rapey clown in the orange rapey clown makeup. |
| 1:51.2 | That didn't happen of course because as we learned in 2016 the Republican |
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