UPDATE: RICK SANTORUM'S POINTLESS AND DECEITFUL CAMPAIGN

For a conservative Democrat, Casey gets an awful lot of campaign contributions from people in Boston. It isn't just because of Santorum's well-deserved reputation for being a vicious and bigoted hate-mongering homophobe. No, ole Man-on-Dog managed to insult the whole city, not just gay people and their families. Last year, the Opus Dei fanatic lashed out and blamed the whole Roman Catholic priest pedophile scandal on Boston. At the time, Santorum wrote "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm." A Santorum aide clarified by vilifying Harvard and MIT. You can imagine the satisfaction lil Ricky must have smugly felt, a man often voted one of the dumbest people in the U.S. Senate-- even dumber than Ted Stevens has become-- who graduated from 6th tier schools (and just barely) to kick institutions like Harvard and MIT. What a winner!


This week Brian McGrory, in the-- uh oh-- Boston Globe decided to do some kicking of his own. "Priests rape young boys, the church hierarchy hushes it up for years, and academics and other assorted Democrats in Boston are to blame. That fact should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, which I think Santorum may have. So, of course, I find it surprising -- no, make that shocking -- that the center of the storm has shifted from Boston to, of all places, Capitol Hill, and not just any part of Capitol Hill but specifically the offices of the Republican congressional leadership. The scandal in Washington so mirrors what's happened in Boston and other Catholic dioceses the nation over to the point of being surreal. A rank-and-file member of an organization does wrong by a minor. The hierarchy, in turn, does nothing. Now, rather than a priest, it's a 52-year-old Republican congressman..."

Not unlike Cunningham blaming the reporter and his co-conspirators in crime for the misery of his life in prison and not unlike Hastert and the Republican congressional leadership blaming gays, Democrats, pages and each other for being caught covering up the Foley serial pedophile scandal. Republicans just are never willing to take any kind of real responsibility for anything.


Meanwhile, Santorum's ill-starred campaign finally got some news coverage not based on what a stupid, corrupt and bigoted rubber stamp he is. Jeb Bush came to Pittsburgh to tell Pennsylvanians to vote for their detested junior senator and he was made to feel so unwelcome that he had to go hide in the closet. Hard to believe Jeb found a closet big enough for that carcass

The Pennsylvanians who frightened Bush so badly were chanting "Jeb go home." They were union workers and anti-war protesters. Before running off to hide in the closet, Bush blew them a kiss.

More common coverage of Santorum's campaign involves things like local TV stations analyzing his dishonest ads and warning voters that Santorum isn't capable of being truthful. That and how unpopular he is and what a doomed, pointless campaign he is running.