Rick Santorum calls Puerto Rico ‘a Spanish-speaking country

[RandySF]

Rick Santorum delivered yet another gaffe about Puerto Rico on Sunday as voters there head to the polls for the Republican primary.

The former Pennsylvania senator referred to the United States commonwealth as a “Spanish-speaking country” on ABC’s “This Week.”

Although Santorum was quick to fix his mistake, it was yet another example of how the presidential wanna-be has stumbled in his efforts to gain support among the island’s Republican voters.

Santorum made the error while he was trying to explain his previous comments that Puerto Rico's residents would have to speak English as a condition of being admitted as the U.S.'s 51st state.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/oops-rick-santorum-calls-puerto-rico-a-spanish-speaking-country-article-1.1041757#ixzz1pVETg8pF

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Keep talking, (p)Rick!

Guess he believes this shout-out to his xenophobic supporters is worth alienating voters in Puerto Rico...although it's an insult to Spanish-speaking voters nationwide as well.

[Chipper Chat]

6. I wonder if pRick has ever been to Brownsville Texas?

You can go all day without hearing one word of English.
I can just see him standing in the middle of the downtown yelling "SPEEEEEEEK EEEEEEEEEENGLEEEESH!"

[demosincebirth]

2. Mitt and Rick seem to have the same "foot in mouth" illness I hope it's long term - at least untill

November, 2012.

[Fool Count]

3. What is the "error"? Could some one explain?

Do they not speak Spanish? Or is Puerto Rico not a country? I understand the "commonwealth" thing,
but Puerto Rico has enough autonomy to field their own national teams in all international sporting
competitions, for instance. Is it not enough to make them a "country"? Not entirely independent one,
sure, but still.

[RKP5637]

5. It's a territory of the US, not a country. See link ...

is an unincorporated territory of the United States,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico

[Octafish]

13. Commonwealth status is a bit of a twilight zone.

For example:

The people of Puerto Rico compete under the flag of the island.

The people of Puerto Rico fight under the flag of the United States.

A few famous Puerto Ricans.

[RKP5637]

4. What a F'en fool! n/t

[kenny blankenship]

7. So he's for Puerto Rican independence then?

How progressive.

[Jennicut]

8. Didn't we learn this in junior high?

Puerto Rico is most definitely NOT a country, Rick.

[lastlib]

11. But he didn't get very good grades b/c his teachers were all liberal union members.

Worthless POS....

[Jennicut]

12. And education is just so snobby, afterall.

I just subbed for a History Class at a junior high on Friday. I bet those kids know more the Rick Santorum.

[lpbk2713]

9. Frothy makes Sarah Failin look like MENSA material ... LMAO

Move over rMoney, it's time for Ricky to take the wheel.

[jschurchin]

10. And this idiot wants to be President?

He should move to Texas. Then he could join gw and Rick. At least then he would be in intellectual comparable company.

[stevenleser]

14. Santorum is what we call in Spanish a "Tonto Cabron" nt

[Initech]

15. Great - we have an even dumber version of Bush running.

Will we ever learn?