Politics & Government

Can Santorum Win the GOP Nomination?

Local political blogger Joe "The Nerd" Ferraro thinks former Senator Rick Santorum has a chance at doing a victory dance in the Republican endzone.

This is a contrary view, but Rick Santorum wins the GOP nomination.

You can make an analogy that Rick Santorum, the Pittsburgh Penguin, scored a hat trick on Tuesday night with victories in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri.

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Seeing pictures of both the Linux Penguin and the former junior senator from Pennsylvania (never got to the senior prom) has convinced me if they were not separated at birth – there are genetic components in play.

But I think that giving him the name Pittsburgh Stealer may be a more proper description. (God, I hope the rest of the country does not blame the Philly area for this guy.)

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He is about to steal the nomination from Mitt Romney. It really doesn't take a lot of rocket science to see this. It is about numbers and personalities.

Read more about Ferraro's pig skin-themed predicition and his look at the numbers here.

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