[Old Retired Army Guy]

This guy lost his Senate seat in PA. So, I guess he believes that qualifies him to be President (Twice in 2012 and 2016). I can’t believe there are some people still throwing money at his candidacy.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

In before most of the anti-Santorum crowd.

(For the record, my other top choices are Cruz, Palin, Jindal, and Pence. I think that Pence may emerge as the ultimate choice.)

Go Rick!

(OK. Fire away. I can take it. :-) )

[RS_Rider]

Maybe he’ll try a SweaterDress this time?

[skinkinthegrass]

Why?

[Signalman]

On my enthusiasm scale for candidates, Ted Cruz is a +10.

Santorum doesn’t even move the dial.

[Iron Munro]

Will he play the role of SPOILER again?

[Cicero]

Santorum is one of the best candidates. He lost his seat mostly because he stuck by his principles, and because the press has worked tirelessly to demonize him.

He ran second to Mitt Romney through most of the last primary, and had the best chance to beat Mitt, but was prevented from doing so by the rest of the crowd—notably Newt Gingrich, who ran a persistent third but stayed in until he had forced Rick out, and then bowed out to Romney.

[Qwackertoo]

Ted Cruz.

I’d go for a Ted Cruz / Rick Perry ticket . . . with Cruz at top of ticket . . . and Perry as Texas has created jobs but a Texas Texas ticket probably wouldn’t be considered.

[TomGuy]

So while the field of social conservatives is expected to be stronger in 2016 ...

Looks like the same ole strategy is developing -- field a bunch of pseudo [a.k.a., social] conservatives to dilute the voting and support so the GOPelite it's-his-turn preference can find smoother sailing to the nomination.

Santorum is just another retread looking for face time on the stages of the primary debates. It is going to be crowded.

Each major party will need to race around $1 billion for the 2016 election. The moneymen become even more important; thus, the wannabes need to try to line up money early in the process.

[Dagnabitt]

Santorum knows he has no chance of the nomination and even less in the General election.

But there's funding to be collected by serving as Jeb's stalking horse.

Perhaps Jeb's network will pay on a performance basis - for each evangelical voter Santorum siphons off of Cruz.

Fellow retread-loser Huckabee may sign up for this gig too.

[Yaelle]

Here is your choice, America: a liberal (maybe radical) democrat as president with a fawning, protective media controlling the people’s thoughts; or some type of republican, wussy or statist or conservative, with an attack dog media calling the president an evil conservative whether he is or not.

It’s not great but I’m going with b. First, do no harm.

Meaning that with a weak Republican Party, a strong hateful media, it won’t matter too much which republican we end up getting. In fact, the best candidate to be a president and govern from the right would be a stealth conservative, whom voters think is middle of the road, IF he actually does literally surprise everyone by secretly being a strong conservative.

[Zhang Fei]

Santorum: Zimmerman ‘has a very sick mind,’ motive ‘a malicious one’

[Nextrush]

I guess he has to get in early to undercut Ted Cruz....

[TheThirdRuffian]

What a loser. Go away re-tread Santorum.

[tomkat]

             

[Ann Archy]

Love Rick’s pro-life stance, however he has NO chance of winning.

[dfwgator]

No Retreads.

[Finny]

Ah, yes. The anti-abortion (good) pro minimum wage (bad) pro union (bad) statist (bad) who wears his religion on his sleeve in order to qualify as a "conservative" but whose goal is to GROW GOVERNMENT his way.

I will ONLY vote for Republicans whose goal is to SHRINK government. I did deep research into Santorum in 2012 and concluded that he is a Christian statist registered as a Republican, nothing more, nothing less.

I hope he is HUMBLE enough to stay out of the race. But his ego is much too invested, I suspect, to pass.

[VTenigma]

Please no, make it stop, I could barely stand him when he was a senator, blow hard.

[muir_redwoods]

"Rick Santorum returns"

Why?