Cause he'd get destroyed - Dems should hope he runs just because of how he'd split up the Republican base from moderates.

But of course you knew that already.

Palin / Santorum 2012, baby!

So if the Republicans could wave flip-flops around mocking John Kerry, does that mean Democrats will be waving baby wipes?

@3 No, you've got to top Palin with Santorum rather than the other way around.

2012 is gonna be a freakshow. I'm already getting excited.

Who's ass is that?

Santorum and Palin and the pope and BP all back in charge, baby. I get all Halloweeny when I think of it.

Lovely play on words! But the mental afterimages are a bit too graphic. Ick..

Leaking, runny Santorum being lapped up by conservatives. Maybe a late lunch wasn't such a good idea.

Really, as an avid political theatregoer, I can't conceive of a better ticket than Palin/Santorum.

@6, I'd like to see Palin topped with Santorum!

Oh, and who's the baseball player? I did a player search on MLB.com and didn't find any Santorum. I looked up the Pittsburgh Pirates site. because of the gold in the stands, and I thought the coloring of the jersey number looked black and gold. Nope! #2(how appropriate for this blog entry) is worn by Bobby Crosby. I looked up historical players as well. No Santorum there either (Santorum runs butt cannot hit or pitch?). So, I'm thinking that guy might be Santorini or something like that.

It is only now after writing all this that the only reason for the picture is that he wears #2 on his back (Santorum is better on your back then in your back? Ewww), and the first part of his name resembles Santorum. But I was given, and took, a great opportunity to write a bunch of disgusting puns about a disgusting substance that got its name from a disgusting man who runs on a disgusting platform. Disgusting! Thats Santorum!

"Santorum received a warm welcome from conservative audiences in Iowa in recent months..."

A warm welcome for warm santorum just warms my heart.

hmm....Google is not looking good for Santorum:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=santorum

or it is, depending on what you are into.

I predict some sort of lawsuit to get rid of the references to Santorum before the run. The Reps'll bring out the big guns -- they don't really see The Stranger as a threat, do they? Oh, this will be fun!

"Santorum Runs!" Can't wait for the headline in The Economist, because those potty-humor-loving Brits lap that shit up, so to speak.

Urgh. Could've done without that headline, Dan.