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>>> The Romney one is also juvenile but is much more damaging because it has a true story behind it that is quite damaging to Romney Spreadingsantorum.com has
by joejohnson 15y ago
>>> The Romney one is also juvenile but is much more damaging because it has a true story behind it that is quite damaging to Romney
Spreadingsantorum.com has a true story behind it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neo... Dan Savage started the campaign because of anti-gay comments Santorum made as a Senator.
While Romney clearly acted in a less than humane manner toward his dog, I think this re-definition of his name is trivial in comparison to how homophobic and anti-human rights Santorum's record is.
- Natsu 15y agoThe odd thing about their refusal is that Google does now have a policy concerning for removing sites from the index where "My full name or the name of my business appears on an adult content site that's spamming Google's search results" http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=name_on_adult_spam_page http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/request.py?hl=en&... I guess the question there is one of "spamming." Googlebombs have previously been considered to be spam, but that line is really blurry. The real problem with the Santorum thing is that it draws attention away from the issue of how Santorum treats homosexuals and turns it into a juvenile prank. People don't mind that because they hate him, but it's a bad way to win over people who don't already hate him. The people disgusted by the term are going to want to vote for him, not against. That's not really what you want.
- joejohnson 15y agoI'm not trying to defend either googlebomb. I just wanted to point out that there is a true story behind Santorum's site, and that this story is probably more telling of a candidates true nature than one anecdote about Romney and his dog.