I'm not quite sure what's funnier, that Mr. Santorum is so obviously making shit up, or that there's a chance some of his constituents are so ignorant they'll actually believe this silliness.

The fact that not a single audience member, nor the host called bullshit on his claims makes me pretty sure that you can strike the "some" from that statement.

Jihadist missiles in Cuba
Santorum made a wild claim that Cuba is working to harbor Muslim terrorists seeking to develop missile sites.

Santorum: We're going to reward a country [Cuba] that is now working with these other countries to harbor and bring in Iran and the terrorist — the Jihadists who want to set up missile sites and to set up training camps.

Santorum's comment sounds very similar to a claim that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann made back in the fall about Hezbollah working with Cuba, and potentially building missile sites within its borders.

Bachmann, Sept. 26, 2011: There's reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you're 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don't want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. This would be foolish.

But according to a report on the Hill's Briefing Room blog, Bachmann was getting her information from an Italian newspaper that did not report that Hezbollah was developing missile sites in Cuba.

The Hill, Sept. 27, 2011: Bachmann was referring to a report in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, which claimed that Hezbollah was setting up a base in Cuba to target Israelis in Latin America. The article was circulated on some conservative blogs, but did not report that Hezbollah planned to import weapons; rather, the terror operation was said to be oriented around intelligence collection, coordination of the group's logistics in Latin America and identification forgery.

:banghead: God damnit rick you need to get through the primaries so you can lose to Obama. You're supposed to say this AFTER you get the GOP nomination not before. Then even the Repubs will think you're crazy.

I'd rather Mr. Frothy not get the nomination. If a black swan event like Iran testing a nuclear weapon in October happens, he might suddenly become electable.

Saying Hezbollah is workign to build a base in Cuba to attack Iraelis in Latin America? How do they think that makes any sense at all?

Do did you know that Iranian and Hezbollah backed terrorist already did attack Israelis and Jews in Latin america in the past? At least that's who Argentina, that raving bastion of pro Israeli propaganda, says carried out the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires which killed or wounded over 400 people. Islamic Jihad meanwhile openly claimed responsibility for another large attack in 1992 killing and wounded several hundred, and has direct links to Iran and Hezbollah. It also most likely carried out a suicide bombing of a small plane carrying primarily jews the day afterward.

With rockets based in Cuba?