Despite a draft movement with throngs of supporters numbering in the single digits, Rick Santorum has ruled out a presidential bid.
Don’t expect to see Sen. Rick Santorum’s name on the 2008 presidential ballot. “Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely not,” Santorum said yesterday on The Michael Smerconish Show on WPHT-AM (1210). “My wife would throw me out of the house if I do anything in ’08.”
Even though he lost his Senate seat last week by 18 points to Democrat Bob Casey Jr., some supporters hoped he would still fill the social conservative niche on the Republican ticket. William J. Bennett, the former U.S. secretary of education and national drug czar, had predicted a “draft Rick Santorum” movement, citing a lack of conservatism on the part of the current GOP front-runners, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Bennett is apparently consuming some of those drugs he was trying to keep our kids from using. One does not go from getting trounced in one’s bid for re-election to the Senate to the presidency in two years. (Unless you’re Abraham Lincoln and there’s a four way race.)
via Taegan Goddard
