Man on Dog column

Oh goody.

Buried in the middle of the Inquirer’s A3 Rick-Santorum-blasts-brown-people story this morning is a bracketed announcement that the former U.S. senator, our state’s preeminent Islamo-Fascist Warrior, will begin a biweekly op-ed column for the paper starting next month.

Just in case Brian Tierney forgot, Pennsylvania residents have already rejected Ricky. In fact, Santorum carried exactly zero counties in November ’06 (including losing his home county, Allegheny, by 30 percentage points). The beating was especially bad in Philadelphia, where I understand quite a few of the Inky's readers live, 84 percent to 16 percent.

So who exactly is expected to read — let alone buy the paper for — Ricky’s column? Heavily Republican Montgomery County, where Santorum managed only 38 percent of the vote? Nah. The aptly named Bucks County? Perhaps. Santorum lost that county by only 18 percentage points — a photo-finish, comparitively speaking.

The great majority of your readers have already rejected Rick Santorum’s ideas, Brian. I hope you’re not expecting a spike in single-copy sales twice a month. In fact, don’t be suprised to see some subscribers cancel. That’s what happens when you hitch your wagon to an anchor.