Finally acceding to the inescapable reality of mathematics, and the likelihood that he would be again badly whomped in his home state of Pennsylvania, the Man Who Would Be America’s Presidential Pope, Rick Santorum, is suspending his futile and demented campaign for the presidency today, according to the New York Times and other news sources. Some have floated the idea that Santorum would be a good VP pick for Romney to placate the angry Christopublicans, but I wouldn’t bet on it. This boy is babbling-kook crazy and even Romney knows that — he’d scare away more voters than he’d attract. Politically, this is the end of the line for St. Santy and his peculiar uber-Catholic variety of theocratic Republicanism. A cozy berth at the Heritage Foundation or Focus on the Family awaits.
Santorum to Suspend Presidential Campaign
by Michael D. Shear and Jim Rutenberg
The New York Times
April 10, 2012Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, according two of his advisers, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party’s conservative standard-bearer in the fall.
Mr. Santorum is due to make the announcement at a stop in his home state of Pennsylvania after a weekend in which he tended to his three-year-old daughter, Bella, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia.
The decision abruptly ends his quest for the Republican presidential nomination after weeks in which he has struggled to compete with Mr. Romney’s well-financed, highly-organized campaign apparatus.
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