More on Santorum's Polka Ad

First, the P-G's own Polka fanatic Tony Norman chimes in on the ad:

Sen. Rick Santorum gets jiggy in a campaign ad featuring senior citizens, polka musicians and the most insincere smile this side of a Hummer dealer.

A grateful senior citizen thanks Mr. Santorum for helping to lead the fight to privatize Social Security. She then orders the senator to "lose it" or something to that effect (a sly reference to the November election?). Mr. Santorum smiles idiotically. Everyone laughs at him.

Though technically a campaign ad and not "fake news," the ad looks as if it were shot on the holodeck of the Federation Star Ship Enterprise. Mr. Santorum looks like he's moving in front of a green screen.

Now Tony is usually very careful with his choice of words but I am curious if Tony gets the double entendre in this phrase:

the most insincere smile this side of a Hummer dealer

When I was a lad, a "hummer" wasn't the current truck-sized car dominating suburbia but something vastly different. I wonder if Rick Santorum woke up today and said to himself, "I wish I could get a Hummer."

Yea, me neither.

And I'm sorry but there oughta be a law banning the use of the term "jiggy" when describing anything about Senator Man-on-Dog.

Anyway, in the ad Lil Ricky touts his own "protection" of Social Security (for instance his "Social Security Protection Act"). However, the Philadelphia Inquirer already debunked that one - a year ago.

[H]e introduced his own Social Security bill on Thursday. It would provide a written guarantee to people born prior to 1950 that they will receive all promised Social Security benefits and cost-of-living increases. His bill is a two-fer, at least on paper. It attempts to soothe seniors who fear that Santorum is trying to take away their benefits, and it insinuates the concept that people born after 1950 do not enjoy the same guarantee (hence the need for private accounts).

Technically, this guarantee is no guarantee at all. Congress could rescind it at any time. This proposal is just one more attempt to give private accounts an ideological foot in the door, while the larger problem of Social Security's pending insolvency goes unsolved. [emphasis added]

At least Rick got to hear some good Cleveland-style polka music.

Rick Santorum - Green screen or no, the man's a fake.