Yes, By All Means, Rick Santorum, Run for President

You know how Rick Santorum is floating the insane notion that he might actually run for president? Of the United States? Even though, a scant four years ago, even this state’s voters ran him out of the Senate on a rail, in an 18-point thumping? Even though he’s perhaps best known as the namesake for, well, just follow this link. Even though he’s the ridiculous person who equates gay sex with bestiality, and claims without hesitation that Barack Obama doesn’t love America because, you know, anyone who wants to reform anything at all hates America (ask Teddy Roosevelt)? Yeah, that guy.

Good luck with that. According to a poll out today, Santorum wouldn’t even win the GOP primary in Pennsylvania. Not even close. In fact, he only gets 11 percent to Mike Huckabee’s 18 percent and Sarah “blood libel” Palin at 18 percent. Hell, only 54 percent of Pennsylvania Republicans approve of him. Oh, and if he opts for a rematch against Bob Casey, only 45 percent of Republicans would vote for him in the primary, even though he’s the only one anybody’s ever heard of. If anybody credible got in the race, that number would only go down. And even if Santorum got a free pass to November 2012, well, good luck with that, too (especially when Philly turns out like mad for Obama).

The jig’s up, Rick. Time to move on. Or not—and we can all just sit back and watch you fail.