I just got off the phone with my 88-year-old aunt. She moved to Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania from Long Island about eight years ago.
She tells me she and her friends in the senior citizen apartments don't like Rick Santorum. Not. One. Bit.
Yup, Rick Santorum has to be doing a lot of bad things down there in order to lose my aunt and all her friends. While Auntie has been a life-long New Deal Democrat, she is still an Italian American Roman Catholic.
Rick is so bad, even that did make her want to vote for him.
"He made us pay for his kids to go to a special school," she complained to me. "He hasn't done one thing for us."
She hadn't heard about the photos of the Santorum fetus. She thought that was just terrible.
Auntie shared with me the phone calls she has been getting from one campaign or another.
"I tell them I am not voting for Santorum, no way," she said.
She and her friends are arranging for a shuttle from their senior housing complex to the polls on Nov. 7.
They are also trying to get their apathetic neighbors to vote.
"I tell them we have to get Santorum out and then we have to get Bush out, too."
Ok, so maybe she forgot she can't vote against Bush again.
But for an octogenarian, she is one sharp cookie.
Santorum doesn't stand a chance.