And Santorum is a whiny little turd.
He's been a good placeholder these few months; but his schoolboyish adventures in rhetoric show him to be out of his element in that setting. And we need him and those narrow issue partisans.
My favorite example: Santorum was asked to take Newt and Mitt to task on their support of individual mandates. Rick went on for quite a while about how this would hamper Newt in a debate with obama (i.e., it would be hard for him to criticize brocko on the point). He asked Newt how he could possibly carry that point in a debate. Newt said: "Simple. I'd just point out that I'd been smart enough to have learned I was wrong; but he hasn't learned it yet." World class; just like the opening round with Mr. I-been-butt-raped-on-national-TV John King.