Suddenly it seems like there's a new news cycle and a new lead story for Rick Santorum every hour, He says Obama wants to bring back the guillotine! He's shouting at Occupy protesters! He wants a constitutional amendment to require chastity belts! OK, I made up that last one, but in the bizzaro-world known as SantorumLand, suddenly anything seems possible.
Like his electiion as president.
Which is why people should be paying more attention to his views on fracking and less to his views on f.... oh nevermind.
As the Center for Responsive Politics reports, Santorum is one of the top U.S. Senate recipients of campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry — and what makes those numbers so stunningly outsized is the fact that he remains one of the top Senate recipients even though the last time he ran for Senate was in 2006. Put another way, this is not a run-of-the-mill legislator who happened to get a few afterthought contributions from the industry; this is a guy who was such a sycophantic apostle of the industry that he received enough oil and gas money to keep him on the top-recipient list a full six years after he was voted out of office — that is, a full six years after he raised a single dollar for a Senate campaign. In baseball terms, it’s the equivalent of Hank Aaron racking up so many home runs that he was able to hold the record well after he retired — only with Santorum, it’s not home runs, it’s oil and gas cash.
Will the oil gazillionaires get their man in White House? Probably not, but his chances of making to the Final Two and November Madness look better every day:
A third national poll has now shown former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) with a lead in the Republican primary race. A new survey commissioned by CBS News and the New York Times shows Santorum with 30 percent of GOPers, followed closesly by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 27, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) with 12 and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has faded to the back with 10 percent. Santorum's lead is within the margin of error, and therefore he and Romney are locked in a statistical dead heat.
That's why you need to get to know the real Rick Santorum.
Will, you realize as any well informed 8th grader, that Ricky has no shot at the nomination. By super Tuesday, he will be history.— jimmymack
Comment removed.- Rick Santorum was an insignificant state senator who voted "present" more than anyone in that state Legislature in recent history. Then he had the audacity to run for the US Senate, based on an altogether unimpressive state record. Within 6 months of becoming a Senator, having never even chaired a committee meeting, Rick Santotum decided that he was ready to be President of the United States. Who is Rick Santorum kidding?— Mr. Smith
- Mr. Smith: I enjoyed your creative contribution. Thanks for that......I wonder if the Obamabots will catch the satire?
- Santorum would like to take us back to the 13th Century. I can't believe any woman, young person, senior citizen or thinking adult would vote for him.— lport
- Will-did you get this staggeringly important story from Media Matters or Listserve? Having trouble trying to figure out whose talking points to parrot?— Tired of Journos
- If Santorum is as bad as Will would like us to believe, why has he survived this campaign so long? If fact why would he be in a dead heat with Romney? I believe that potential voters think he has something to say and they want him to be heard, unlike Will who wants the Santorum message to be buried under a mass of accusations and innuendos. Nice journalism there Will............— RufusG
- One of Will's lessons from Saul Alinsky is to hammer the hell out of a potential political opponent until that opponent is rendered impotent. You can see that in his treatment of Rick Santorum.— RufusG
- No fan of Slick Rick but I gotta tell ya Will, he couldn't be any worse than the idiot Kenyan that sits the White Hut right now.— MilesLong1
- No need to hammer these knuckleheads, they are hammering each other. Every progressive in the country would celebrate if Ricky gets the nod. And Romney? Even his own party doesn't want him. Watching this primary is like watching a year long sinking of the Costa Condordia. They are on the rocks now and will soon break apart. Fun stuff.— oldlion
- I wouldn't let Will Bunch run ......after my dog. Could you imagine Will being anything other then a political hatchet man? His views are handed down to him from the powers above.— RufusG
- Good job, Will. The link to Center for Responsive Politics shows that Obama actually received more money from the industry than Santorum. You're too stupid to even bash your political opponents properly. Soros is going to want his money back.— RG
- Yes, yes. Bunch pees his pants at the mere sight of Santorum. How afraid of one man can another man be? LMAO. Run and hide Will, run and hide.— journalismIsDead
- Yeah ... when I saw the ship wrecked Costa Concordia I immediately thought of the Republican race for the presidency. How many of you awful, unfeeling, repugnant, degenerates exist out there?— RufusG
Will Bunch, a senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News, blogs about his obsessions, including national and local politics and world affairs, the media, pop music, the Philadelphia Phillies, soccer and other sports, not necessarily in that order.
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