Is Rick Santorum trying to save the GOP from Sarah Palin? Don't get out your hedge trimmers just yet, Rick - Image via Wikipedia Rick Santorum is testing the waters in Iowa for a possible presidential run in 2012 according to Jonathan Martin in Politico. But what I think he’s really doing is a favor for his friend Mitt Romney, hoping to undercut Sarah Palin’s votes within the Republican Party’s ‘base’ of religious voters, and, in his view, possibly saving the GOP in the process. As Jonathan explains, Santorum is probably tilting at windmills – he’s just not electable: But...