Anyways, as the runner up from the previous competitive primary, he'd normally get it this time, but the except seems to be if your daddy was President, so that means Jeb gets it.
I dislike Rick Santorum and disagree with him on most things, but I do feel like his entire political career has basically been one indignity and slight after another.
He carried water on all of Bush's top legislative priorities in the 2000s only to be ignored when he was struggling to get reelected in 2006 - while the national GOP was directing resources to, of all people, Lincoln Chafee. He won Iowa in 2012 but got none of the benefit of doing so since everyone thought Romney won it until like three months later. Now he's technically "next in line" but the GOP is letting a Bush cut to the front of the line.
Santorum's seething resentment isn't unjustified; it's just unfortunate that he can't channel it into something more productive.
Santorum did the dirty work in the Senate, and voters in a swing state were not going to forgive him. Contrast Pat Toomey, who is even more right-wing, but keeps his hands clean. Toomey has a fair chance of winning re-election.
