Rick Santorum will not be running for the 2008 Presidential nomination:
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.
In order to have a draft movement, you need a candidate that actually has a chance in hell of winning. Anyone who thought Santorum fit that bill must have been smoking something really special.
H/T: James Joyner
November 17th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
You are dead on about having no chance to win. Personally, I think the GOP needs to move slightly away from the far right on social issues, and concentrate on economic issues, which are much more uniting.