And then there were....aw, heck, I've lost count....:
Rick Santorum, the former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, will announce today that he will seek the GOP nomination for president in 2016, ABC News has learned. ABC News’ Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit down for an exclusive interview with Santorum this afternoon.
Santorum, 57, is set to reveal his presidential intentions at an event today in Cabot, Pennsylvania, near his childhood home. It will be his second run for the White House, almost four years after he won primaries and caucuses in eleven states and finished second to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican nomination.
Which means, don't forget, that it's Tricky Dick's "turn" in 2016. It isn't much of a pretext, but it's more than most of this thundering herd of trunkless Pachyderm flesh possesses. And think of the He[ck] In A Cell match he'll have with Huck [and...Jeb Bush?] for the affections of evangelicals. I can see the PPV fundraising revenue tsunamis now.
Is it all the more appalling that he's re-legitimizing Stephi in the process? Probably not. As bottom-of-the-candidate-barrel as Santorum is, and as late a buzz-raising start as he's got, he can't be choosy about the media outlet(s?) willing to give him another fifteen minutes of fame. And, really, was anybody the slightest bit surprised that Bill Clinton's first White House press secretary was on the payrolls of ABC and the Clinton Foundation at the same time? Hell, I've always assumed it. And you'll notice that ABC, far from giving GS the Brian Williams treatment, just waited a couple of weeks for the mini-teapot-tempest to blow over and returned to business as usual. It's why I didn't bother writing about it here at PP. What would have been the point? It's not like it was news or anything.
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