Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s visit yesterday to a small-enough-to-look-crowded Montrose room got me thinking, which is always dangerous. His dismal fourth-out-of-four finish yesterday in Nevada’s caucuses got me thinking even harder.
Why is this guy even running?
He’s either totally clueless or has an ego the size of Jupiter.
They say familiarity breeds contempt. So it was with Santorum in his home state in 2006. After serving as Pennsylvania’s senator for twelve years, the people rose up and tossed him out of office by an 18-point margin. That’s a bigger margin of loss for a Pennsylvania incumbent senator than in any other race since the 17th Amendment provided for direct election of senators by the people. (Raw data here.) Read more