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DN Editorial: Sorry for Santorum!

PENNSYLVANIA'S own Rick Santorum is running for president. No kidding. He announced it yesterday in Somerset County. We can't imagine the thought process that leads a person to think he can be president when, after several months of campaigning, he has driven his poll numbers up to 2 percent, dead-last among the circus that is the Republican presidential race. (Santorum even trails "Someone else," who registers 3 percent.)

Rick Santorum works the crowd after announcing he is entering the Republican presidential race at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerset, Pa., Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo / Gene J. Puskar)
Rick Santorum works the crowd after announcing he is entering the Republican presidential race at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerset, Pa., Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo / Gene J. Puskar)Read moreAP
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PENNSYLVANIA'S own Rick Santorum is running for president. No kidding. He announced it yesterday in Somerset County.

We can't imagine the thought process that leads a person to think he can be president when, after several months of campaigning, he has driven his poll numbers up to 2 percent, dead-last among the circus that is the Republican presidential race. (Santorum even trails "Someone else," who registers 3 percent.)

Santorum has another problem, too. When he compared gay marriage to "man on dog" sex, the senator so raised the ire of some gays, they turned his last name into a slang word for something that we can't mention in this newspaper.

Dear People of the United States:

We are sorry about this. We thought we had done our part. When Santorum ran for a third term as U.S. senator among the people who know him best, he lost by an astonishing 17 points. We don't like him; we really don't like him. We assumed he would get the message.