Rick Santorum's new Philly Inquirer Column:

Underwhelming and clearly heavily edited out the wazoo...


http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/11104422.html

to quote:

'Odd." It is, indeed, odd to write a column every other Thursday for a paper that used that very word to describe me. Actually, odd was one of the nicer terms used in The Inquirer to describe me. Imagine these words next to your name in your high school yearbook - disingenuous, snake oil peddler, smug, arrogant, chicken-livered, intolerant and fatalistic. And most of those labels were in news stories.
My new employer also claimed not so long ago that I "inspire contempt" and "have lost my mind" and that my actions bore a remarkable resemblance to Joe McCarthy's. You know? The namesake of McCarthyism. At the time, I took solace from the implied compliment. At least The Inquirer thought I was making a substantial mark on my generation. Not bad for someone they also called a "doofus."

As regular readers of this page know, these pejoratives only scratched the surface of the contempt that this paper - and its readers, in what seemed to me an endless stream of letters to the editor - had for me and my performance in office.

What could have possibly possessed Chris Satullo to invite me to be a columnist shortly before he decided to step down as Editorial Page editor? Maybe it had something to do with his moving on. Other theories range from premature senility to guilt.


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It just gets 'funnier' from there...this guy's bucking for something besides the 'man-on-dog' award. They're going to have problems finding things for genius to write about.

Lotsa cancellations for the paper when they announced this including my long-term receptionist's.