Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum got quite the surprise on Saturday which finishing his speech in Charleston, South Carolina. As if placing third in the South Carolina primary wasn’t enough, Santorum was glitter bombed by Occupy Charleston protestors. This isn’t the first time that Santorum was hit by glitter, he got the same treatment in Iowa just two days before. Glitter is probably the most annoying thing in the world to try to get off of skin and clothing so I’m sure he didn’t just laugh it off! Read more and see a video of the “glitter bomb” after the jump.
As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum finished his speech on Saturday following his third-place finish in the South Carolina primary, he was glitter-bombed by members of the Occupy Charleston movement, Summerville Patch reports.
It isn’t clear whether Santorum himself was hit with glitter, but BuzzFeed reports that at least one member of the Duggar family, the reality-TV stars who’ve endorsed the socially conservative candidate, were hit with glitter.
Summerville Patch’s Lindsay Street reports:
As Santorum closed his speech focusing on building strong family values, a gay rights activist said: “Except when you’re gay” and threw a handful of glitter in the air.
Members of the Occupy Charleston group joined in with chants of “Rick, Rick, Rick, bigot, bigot, bigot” and singing “Santorum, Santorum, you’re a bigot.”This isn’t the first time Santorum has been the target of glitter. At an event in Iowa in December, a man who yelled “Stop the hate, taste the rainbow” threw glitter at the former Pennsylvania senator.
And Real Clear Politics reported on Thursday, just two days before the South Carolina primary, that people protesting Santorum’s stance on social issues at a rally in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. threw glitter at the candidate.
