"Soar" -- the new "surge"?

[Victor Steinbok]

How long will we have to deal with Santorum cracks and his lack of
oozing enthusiasm? Is avoidance of "slippery" with respect to Newt
important? (I don't think a "soaring Newt" would be any better...) What
about anagrams on Romney? I started using R-money recently, and I was
not referring to his suits.

     VS-)

On 2/15/2012 11:04 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> ABC (where the network news programs are unpaid infomercials for
> Walt's enterprises) used "surge" for Santorum twice in two minutes
> this morning.
>
> Anyway, is a "surging Santorum" any more discouraging than a "soaring
> Santorum"?  (Perhaps a little less snickering, I suppose.)
>
> In passing, prompted by a reflexive near-finger-Fehler, I see
> "Santorum" associated with "sanitarium" 124,000 times in Google
> Everything.  And with "sanitorium" 38,8000 times.  (And with
> "sanitorum" a mere 2,620 times.)  I expect these will surge too.
>
> Joel

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