Tricky Ricky

Attytood, also known as Will Bunch, a writer from the Philadelphia Daily News, wrote an American Prospect article that has just been posted, With A Little Help From His Friends. The article details some of machinations of Rick Santorum, that sanctimonious so and so. It's a fascinating picture of Santorum and his questionable ties to large donors and lobbyists. Bunch provides a summary of the article on his blog, How Santorum paid for his Va. house...and his Starbucks coffee.

Bunch's article gives even more credence to the interesting theory raised by Noel Weyrich, who writes the Contrarian column for Philadelphia Magazine (which is unfortunately not posted on-line). Weyrich suggests that Santorum's strategy is to lose his Senatorial race, and to become a "martyr" to the right wing cause, which will ensure that he lands a big money job on K Street. Rather that give up his seat to a hand picked successor, he'd rather be badly beaten by Casey to be sure that he can claim to have lost to those Liberal devils.