u r 2 stupid!

Politicians are no smarter than the rest of us, which is why they hire campaign staff, to keep them from doing stupid or, at any rate, unintentionally funny things. Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum might need to find new staff.
Santorum, among the most conservative members of the Senate, is in a tight (not really; he's down by 15) race to hold on to his seat. He has evidently decided that he needs more women to vote for him (the fact that he just plain needs anybody to vote for him seems to have escaped his campaign staff). So how does he decide to start targetting women? By text message! Of course! On his website, you can sign up for text message updates about what Rick is doing for women. Or is it four women?

I ask, because this is the text of his first text message:

"From keeping women's docs in PA to allowing parents the freedom to work from home, Rick Santorum is leading 4 women."

Now, I don't do much texting because I'd rather speak and I hate the modified l33t-speak texters use, such as switching the word "for" with the number "4". What strikes me as funny here is that the rest of the message is completely free of text-isms--he even included the apostrophe in "women's." Get real; it takes like two minutes to find an apostrophe on the phone. No, they included the 4 because they wanted to seem hip in some horribly square way; if they'd been trying to save time, the message would have looked more like this:

"Rick Santorum rulz 4 wmns issues don8 now."

Or something similar.

So when I saw this message, I was thinking: Rick Santorum is leading 4 women? Really? Where is he taking them? Better not be his bedroom; politicians get in a lot of trouble for things like that.