Don't take this man's presidential ambitions seriously

Rick Santorum may be admirable, but he is unelectable

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What is Rick Santorum thinking? According to a wonderfully sourced report by Chris Moody at Yahoo News, Santorum thinks he has a shot at the 2016 nomination. The former senator from Pennsylvania believes he will represent the best political hopes and aspirations of all those Americans who do not want Hillary Clinton to be their president. Perhaps he even thinks he has attained the status of "next" in the GOP — the nebulous unofficial position believed to have been occupied by George H.W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney following initial attempts at the presidency that ended in failure.

Of course, this is ludicrous.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.