Open Thread: Oops! Rick Santorum Just Can’t Help Himself

Earlier today Rick Santorum spoke to a Tea Party crowd in Troy, Michigan and, as he did about a month ago, suggested that people in “minority communities” are especially reliant on food stamps and welfare.

Speaking to a large crowd at the conservative Americans for Prosperity Presidential forum here, Santorum said he planned to “talk to minority communities, not about giving them food stamps and government dependency, but about creating jobs so that they can participate in the rise of this country.”

Here’s the video:

In Iowa in January, Santorum said what most people thought sounded like this:

“I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”

Watch it:

Later he claimed he had really said “blah people.”

Today Santorum was pretty clear in linking food stamps and “dependency” to minorities, even though most of the people using government programs are white. How will he try to weasel out this time? This guy just can’t seem to keep from saying whatever pops into his head.