Rick Santorum compares an upcoming debate performance to Michael Jordan's flu game

Did you know Rick Santorum is still in the race to win the Republican nomination for President? Well, he is!

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Apparently there is a GOP debate on Tuesday, apparently Rick Santorum is in it, and apparently Rick’s got a case of the scratchies!

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Usually we’d dismiss this sort of comparison out of hand, because so many things are infinitely more important in life than sports – even a game as “important” as Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. But Rick Don’t Google My Last Name Santorum somehow dove in under the divining line with this one.

Santorum is reportedly polling at less than two percent of Iowa caucus voters.

(Hat-tip to For the Win, because I … I don’t follow Rick Santorum on Twitter.)

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Kelly Dwyer

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