Santorum, 53, known for staunchly conservative positions on welfare reform and homosexuality, has already been campaigning in early voting states, including New Hampshire and South Carolina, where he won two informal Republican straw polls.
But he is at the bottom of the Republican pack in the slow-moving national primary election race for the party's presidential nomination, garnering only 2 percent support in a Gallup poll of Republican voters last month.
Political insiders say his presidential prospects are weak, partly because he lost his Senate seat by a wide 59 to 41 percent margin in 2006, after sticking to his support for Social Security reforms that had soured on voters.
On Monday, he backed a Republican plan to transform the Medicare healthcare program for the elderly into a system that would help beneficiaries pay for private health insurance.
"Seniors can, in fact, do this. It does save money and it's going to be a good thing for them and it's going to be a great thing for our country," Santorum said.
Yes, the end of Medicare is going to be a "great thing" for America's seniors. Santorum combines all of the worst positions of the GOP spectrum with a personal charisma that ranks somewhere between a used litterbox and a petri dish of syphilis, and if the rest of the GOP super long shots like Herman Cain or Jon Huntsman needed somebody in the race to make them look like legitimate candidates, Santorum has answered the call wholeheartedly.
We'll have at least a few months of laughs before Frothy here folds up his tent when he fails to place anywhere near the top in the first few primaries, but those months are going to be lots of fun.
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