Alright writing that title took a lot out of me. My dignity, my integrity, my progressivism has definitely taken a hit after saying such an abominable statement.
I am rooting for Rick Santorum. The Rick Santorum that compared homosexuality to bestiality, who wants to vomit at the thought of John F. Kennedy, who doesn't want to help "blah" people and the one who might have a shot of being the Republican nominee for President.
But how can I do this? I'm certainly not rooting for Rick Santorum because of his views.
Let's be real, none of the remaining candidates (excluding Ron Paul) can call themselves outsiders or insiders. Romney and Santorum have been out of office for six years and Gingrich has been out since 1999.
They are failed insiders who can't call themselves outsiders. None of them have really brought change or have done anything to rattle up the status quo of the Republican Party.
This is the Junior Varsity squad of candidates. No big establishment figure or celebrity of the Tea Party (Bachmann's influence has dimmed) has emerged as someone to rally behind.
The search for the next Ronald Reagan has turned into the quest to avoid being the successor to Wendell Willkie.
I'm certainly not rooting for Rick Santorum due to him changing the landscape of Washington.
Rick Santorum may be delusional but he's not in a comical way a la Sarah Palin or Jim Bunning. Palin and Bunning were scary but could be lampooned on Saturday Night Live in which the caricature of them de-humanized them in a political sense.
Once Palin sat down with Charlie Gibson, her presidential aspirations really faded and now she has a Ron Paul like following that won't result in much power. Sure she has her ardent supporters but there is no way she's going to be anything more than a candidate as opposed to an elected official.
Rick Santorum on the other hand can appeal to people as his hokey, folksy, preaching way of oration makes right-wingers swoon. He doesn't have any real charisma but he comes across as more "gentlemanly" than other neocons that let their freak flag fly sky high. He has said too many horrendously backwards statements yet somehow is considered to be a serious candidate.
So I am not rooting for Rick Santorum for comical purposes.
I am, quite frankly, rooting for Rick Santorum to show the flaws of the Republican Party. This man could win more states than any candidate yet easily lose the nomination due to the delegate conventions and his 8th-grade organization that follows him.
I am rooting for Rick Santorum because it's hilarious to see an exceedingly rich rival and his sponsors donate millions after millions to still wind up third in every Southern state (sans Georgia and Tennessee).
Yes Foster Friess is in the mix, but it's way more comical to see the most organized candidate who is really the only one that has a likely path to the nomination fail.
Mitt Romney is proving that he is too big to not succeed. Sure he's friends with too big to fail but that hasn't rubbed off on his candidacy. Romney, who has probably disavowed his love for grits as he woofs down deep-dish pizza in Illinois, is again proving that you can't completely buy the nomination. You have to work for it too.
Which is why this nomination is utterly hilarious if you enjoy seeing an elite person fail. Here's a guy who has had a lot of things handed to him and the fact that he can't put away the former junior Senator from Pennsylvania who has been out of the limelight since 2006 shows you how out-of-touch the elite truly are.
Mitt was raised with a silver spoon and brought the Olympics back to America but it looks like he'll wind up with just a silver medal.
That is why I am rooting for Rick Santorum.
I hope I never write that again.