Santorum 2012?

In the meantime, he has some things to say. For starters: “I have no great burning desire to be president, but I have a burning desire to have a different president of the United States.”

Santorum doesn’t see anyone in his party who energizes the three legs of the stool, as Ronald Reagan described the Republican issue clusters — the economy, national security and social conservatism…

Otherwise, Santorum is considered a fighter, a team player and a principled insider, the latter nearly an oxymoron. As lobbyist Scott Hatch once described him to me: “He may break eggs, but he gets results — more than anybody else I’ve seen in there. He’s very willing to spend his precious political capital on not very politically popular issues.”