Rick Santorum, his pro-union campaign slogan, and a slippery start

Former Senator Rick Santorum's nascent presidential bid got off to a slippery start?no word if a frothy mix was involved?after it was noted by Think Progress that:

... former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) announced that he will begin fundraising for a presidential run using the campaign slogan ?Fighting to make America America again.? This eloquent turn of phrase, however, was not invented by Santorum. It is borrowed from the title of a pro-union, pro-racial justice, and pro-immigrant poem written by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes ? ?Let America Be America Again?

And at his first unofficial, official campaign stop later that day, Santorum was asked about it:

"No I had nothing to do with that," Santorum said. "I didn't know that. And the folks who worked on that slogan for me didn't inform me that it came from that, if it in fact came from that."

... When asked a short time later what the campaign slogan meant to him, Santorum said, "well, I'm not too sure that's my campaign slogan, I think it's on a web site."

It was also printed on the campaign literature handed out before the speech.

In other words, he elected to play dumb. Which is the only thing Santorum has a shot at being elected to.

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