Ok, as I was gearing up to write this piece I Googled “Santorum” to see if Dan Savage’s campaign for the neologism Santorum, from 2003, would still come up high in the Google listings. It was with some satisfaction that it came up on top out of 9,180,000 results. That, my friends, is the pinnacle of epic trolling. I’ll leave the link here, if you are unfamiliar with either this campaign or Dan Savage do yourself a favor and follow the link. Avoid liquids while reading as they tend to come flying out of facial orifices.

Anyway, while I was smirking at the Google results I skimmed down the page and holy shit, there it was, the single best headline of this early GOP campaign,

Herman Cain mocks Santorum’s ‘doomed presidential bid’.

“Perhaps they’re making a desperate bid to remind people that they still exist,” the blog post pondered. “It could be that we’re simply watching a giant game of ‘me too’ played by people who are terrified of being ‘left out.’ Maybe it’s that they each have an army of yes men telling them they actually have a prayer of winning, when in reality they’ll just cannibalize each other and steal time from candidates who could genuinely go the distance. Whatever the reason, the GOP is quickly transitioning from its previous status as a party with a ‘deep bench’ to one boasting a litany of antiquated failures who don’t know when to walk away.”

WTF? Pot, allow me to introduce Kettle. Of course, I had to follow that link and damn! There was Herm rolling around in the irony like a dog in fresh bullshit.

As ironic as that was it has served to hijack the point of this post which was to recognize that former senator and homophobic god botherer Rick “Frothy” Santorum has formally boarded the GOP clown car where the window licking and crayon eating continues apace.

Meanwhile, Irony takes a pull from her bottle and slumps in the corner weeping.