Santorum's addiction
Watching Rick Santorum deliver a speech from Pennsylvania on the night of the Wisconsin primary, something very disturbing occurred to me. Santorum is having a very hard time letting go of the national spotlight.
He performed so poorly in the early going of the whole nomination process and has, let's be honest, been able since to sieze a significant piece of the national stage. It's all been so improbable. Now that it's time to say goodbye, he can't do it.
He's mainlining adulation and has no idea how to wean himself off it. He's jonesing for his next fix. Maybe he thinks it'll be the GOP primary in his home state of Pennsylvania. I don't know.
He's in a kind of bubble that happens in politics when a candidate gets so addicted to the attention that nothing matters but the next applause line.
That's Santorum's addiction and it's getting sad. It's over, Rick. Get out, go away, shoo!
(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)
Labels: 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Republicans, Rick Santorum
posted by Richard K. Barry at
10:45 AM
1 Comments:
Don't wish him away yet. We need many more gaffes and howlers and darts thrown at Mittens. Let the charade carry on as long as possible and let the damage be done. Please think of the children, or whatever it is you want to save by having the GOP implode.
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Distortion not Noise, at 12:53 PM
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