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"FacebookPinterest\n\n The Savage Love sex columnist is famous for ruining Rick Santorum\u2019s Google search with a filthy sexual neologism. GQ caught up with him on Santorum\u2019s last minute rise in the polls.\n\nGQ: What do you make of Santorum\u2019s last minute surge in Iowa?\n\n\n\nDan Savage: Mostly I\u2019m making hay of it on my blog and on Twitter--you gotta love headlines like &amp;quot;Santorum surges from behind&amp;quot; at Philly.com and &amp;quot;Santorum comes from behind&amp;quot; at Catholic.org.\n\nAs for the politics of it: Santorum was the last candidate social conservatives in Iowa turned to--he was the last candidate that they could turn to--after Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain flamed, stammered, and harassed out, respectively. He was never running for president, though. He knew it, his opponents know it, the media pretends not to know it. He was and remains a vanity candidate--he\u2019s running for four more years as a Fox News talking head. He\u2019s this year\u2019s Huckabee, and Roger will reward Rick like he rewarded Mike: with a talk show to call his own. And a deal to write a steady stream of books about how Obama turned the greatest country in the whole history of the whole world into a stinking socialist shithole. But Rick is going to do fine in Obama\u2019s socialist shithole. He\u2019s going to rake it in. He\u2019s not going to do any actual governing, however, and thank God, but he\u2019ll never have to work again.\n\nGQ: Between Santorum and Perry, are you ready to redefine Rick?\n\n\n\nSavage: Already redefined Rick: it means to remove with your tongue. So &amp;quot;Rick Santorum&amp;quot; is actually a sentence now, not a name.\n\nFor more from the Iowa caucuses, follow @marincogan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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