It's simple - Santorum doesn't want to be president. He wants to rake in the big bucks

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4. I respectfully disagree

I don't buy the whole running for president but doesn't want to be president game for anyone. In general, it costs too much and is too physically demanding.

Specifically (re: Santorum), from what I've read, his senate staff had to keep him on a short lease to keep him from saying a lot of the things he's saying now. The man is crazy and believes God is on his side when it comes to all his crazy positions that he's now letting us hear about. You remember him as running as more of a moderate in the Senate because as long as you meet the federal and state guidelines for running and have the cash, anyone can make a go for the Senate. So you're thrown into the election right from the start, and you have to run more moderately. Here, Santorum has to get the GOP nomination first, and to do that he has to run to the right to get the republican base (which is largely made up of insane people now), and then if he's smart, he has to move back toward the middle for the general election. I say he's gone full-on bonkers with his religious insanity and won't do that if he gets the nomination.

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