This must be part six in the ongoing saga of Savior Implosion, in which the GOP base, looking for someone more thrilling than Mitt Romney, touches on one who is much too exciting, and exciting in all the wrong ways.

This time, the savior would be Rick Santorum, last seen losing by 18 points in the 2006 midterms, who picked up the torch from the fading Newt Gingrich, who picked it up in his turn from three or four others, each of who promised to set the whole world on fire, but only flamed out by themselves.