Rick Santorum: Candidate of, and for, the Ignorant

While the Republican field is admittedly "weak" this year, I can never remember a candidate who so obviously  tried to appeal to ignorant voters as Rick Santorum--and I'm not only talking about his most recent bashing of "education."   According to Politico, Santorum screwed up and failed to file delegate names in all Ohio congressional districts, and therefore even if he wins the Ohio primary next Tuesday, he is ineligible for 18 of Ohio's 66 delegates:

Report: - POLITICO.com: " . . . Rick Santorum was already known as starting from a deficit, delegate-wise, in Ohio. He failed to qualify for any district delegates in three Ohio congressional districts because he didn't turn in delegate names there. But his delegate troubles go deeper. According to the Ohio Republican Party tonight, the former Pennsylvania U.S. senator filed incomplete delegate slates in six additional Ohio districts. Altogether, this means Santorum, who until this week had a fair lead in polls in the Republican nominating race, could be ineligible for 18 Ohio district delegates. Ohio has 66 delegates total, 63 at stake next Tuesday. The candidate with the most delegates wins. Santorum therefore goes into the Ohio primary election with a 29 percent deficit. . . "

But rather than admitting his own mistakes, Santorum tries to blame "others"--the so-called "establishment."   

" . . . Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley emails Summers: "The attempt by the establishment to deceive the voters of Ohio and further their hand picked candidate will be met with resistance on Tuesday. I want to be clear, Rick Santorum's name will appear on every ballot in the state of Ohio and every vote cast will go towards his at-large delegate allocation. As it relates to individual congressional districts, its clear we aren't the establishment hand picked candidate and back in December we were a small effort focused on Iowa. Now that we've won several states obviously much has changed and we feel confident that we will do well in both the delegate and popular vote count on Tuesday."

In other words, Santorum ignores the fact that his own campaign failed to abide by the rules and file for the necessary delegates, and as a consequence, he (not the "establishment") has disenfranchised the votes of his own supporters.  Instead, Santorum again attempts to appeal to his ignorant supporters by claiming it's all the fault of some "conspiracy" of the "establishment"--PATHETIC--but true to form for the "Candidate of, and for, the Ignorant." And this guy wants to be President?

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