National Review is typically a bi-weekly publication. But its next edition comes after a three week gap. But NR is hitting the ground running in 2012. Rick Santorum is on the cover, and Robert Costa writes the accompanying feature article, which is available on NRO.Santorum's Iowa showing shocked Beltway pundits, many of whom wrote him off months ago. They credit his long, strange trip into the primary's top tier to the isolated enthusiasm of Midwestern evangelicals and to finicky conservatives who settled late on an also-ran. But on the trail, at Pizza Ranch restaurants and small-town diners, it's clear that Santorum’s climb is about more than luck or the whims of Iowa's social conservatives. It’s not about celebrity, either. His usual outfit—singlecolor, slightly pilled sweater-vests over pressed white shirts—is the look of the ill-at-ease soccer dad, not the confident frontrunner. Republicans have flocked to him at the eleventh hour, encouraged by his dogged, shoe-string operation, by his accessible, at-ease manner, and, perhaps most notable, by the power of reinvention.Santorum lost--badly--his 2006 Senate reelection bid. We've all had setbacks, so it's understandable to admire a person who bounces back.
The Santorum-cover NR should be arriving in mailboxes in the next few days. Or you can pick up a copy from a news stand.
As for myself, I'm a subscriber.
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