Santorum? Seriously?

Santorum (the brown one) goes after Mitt (the pasty one).

So one of the questions has been who will win the game of musical chairs that is the Iowa caucus.

Now Iowa is really only of importance to a few candidates, like Bachmann and Santorum, who are counting on evangelical support to validate their vanity candidacies.  But what the hell, it beats the "debates".

But Romney is perpetually mired at 25% (which is fine for him in Iowa).  So someone has to "peak" at the right moment.  Sadly for me, Gingrich peaked too soon.  After a few weeks in the sun, people looked at him and said, "Oh, yeah!  He's Newt Gingrich!"  And that was that.

Paul's ascendancy seems already to be in peril as both the GOP establishment and the press are pointing out that he's a loon and a racist and a bigot.

And here comes Santorum, moving to third place in a recent poll.  Santorum is reasonably bright and is a good orthodox Republican.  He's about as charismatic as a bacillus, but whatever.  For Iowa, he could be the Huckabee 2.0.  He won't do shit in New Hampshire, but if he wins Iowa and does "OK" in NH, he might plausibly become the focus of the Quest for Not Mitt.

But sadly, this likely won't happen either.  Everyone is saddled with Romney and no one seems especially happy with that.