Thursday, December 29, 2011

Rick Santorum; last hope for the anybody-but-Paul crowd

A funny thing has happened on the way to the Iowa caucuses. The invisible candidate, Rick Santorum, suddenly has big-time front-page cred!

Look for Rick on Meet the Press and Face the Nation this coming weekend. He's everywhere all of a sudden after being nowhere all along.

Oddly enough, the ascent of the nowhere man has coincided with the decline in the fortunes of the GOP establishment's favorites and the rise of Ron Paul.

Why? Well, Mitt's a Mormon, Perry's a moron, Bachmann's a woman, Newt is Newt, none of which is exactly winning-ticket material in Iowa.

By God, how are we ever gonna stop the Ron Paul juggernaut, that train of pain that's gonna let the air out of the tires of manifest destiny, derail the beltway gravy train, and MAKE POT A TAXABLE LEGAL PRODUCT!? OH MY GOD WHATEVER WILL WE DO?...

Oh look, there goes Rick Santorum...  Of course! Quick, let's get him on Meet the Press while there's still time.

He's a city slicker who hides it well. The Iowa rubes will fall for the schtick. Homos bad, creationism good. Islam bad, Israel good. Unions bad, drugs bad, welfare bad, Santorum good good good.

P.T. Barnum's maxim about the American public is about to be proved correct yet again.

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