Santorum-Mania Runs Wild

When Rick Santorum fell just eight votes shy of winning the Iowa Caucus earlier this week it sent a shockwave through the American media and political system. The previously little know candidate whose presence in the race was overshadowed by former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party darling and Sarah Palin light, Michelle Bachman and Texan Governor  Rick Perry suddenly has found himself to be the new flavour of the month for the media.

Santorum-mania is running wild and one can only imagine the circus that would have evolved around Santorum if reports in the New York Times prove to be true that he was the victim of a new age hanging Chad, a typo in a spreadsheet denied him victory in Iowa.

The Times are reporting that Mitt Romney was the recipient of twenty two in the heavily conservative precinct of Washington Wells according to the Iowa GOP official spreadsheet. However, Edward True a voter present at the caucus who assisted in the count claims that Romney only received two votes.  Indeed Mr. True’s claims can be backed up by polling numbers from the like minded precincts around Washington Wells, where Romney received as little support as only two votes in one precinct and in another no votes at all.

The twenty votes allowed Romney to emerge victorious by the slimmest of margins and yet if you deduct those votes from the former Governor of Massachusetts it is Santorum who would have emerged victorious by twelve votes.

When questioned about the report on various US Cable news shows on Thursday Mr. Santorum seemed to laugh off the matter in an “aww shucks” kind of way reminiscent of The Simpson’s episode in which a judge, regardless of how heinous Bart’s crimes were, would just dismiss them with the words ”boys will be boys”

Santorum’s indifference towards the dubious result may be explained by the fact that in the 1980’s Santorum himself was used to work on behalf of a company whose very foundations were established on rigged results.

According to the Wrestling Observer Website Mr. Santorum worked for the law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart as a lobbyist for World Wrestling Entertainment in the 1980’s in the Pennsylvania area. At the time the backstage antics of the wrestler’s would make even Keith Richards blush never mind the social conservatives who make up Santorum’s voter base. Indeed WWE was more Caligula than Family Ties and one has to wonder how supporters would feel to know that Mr. Santorum was once lobbying on behalf of men who popped hard drugs as if they were Tic Tics and traded women amongst themselves in the same manner old college buddies, who haven’t seen each other in a while, swap stories.