Santorum and the Cicero brothers

BY PETER STOTHARD

I can barely hear the the words Super Tuesday without wishing I had been in Ohio or Georgia this week.

For any political journalist (as once I was) it is the best of times.

Today I made a tiny contribution to the coverage in the Wall Street Journal with a piece on the Commentariolum Petitionis (translated in its most recent version as How to Win Elections) a practical, cynical and eerily modern guide to winning votes that is commonly (and probably correctly) attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero's younger brother Quintus.

I thought of Robert Kennedy's help to JFK and Jeb Bush's for GWB and Roger Clinton's and Billy Carter's hindrances. 

And I wondered what help the younger Santorum brother was giving.

I asked but no one seemed to know.

Is anything fraternal happening out there?

 

Comments

[Shelley]

Perhaps brothers can either expand together intellectually (the Kennedys slowly catching on to the civil rights movement) or reinforce each others' blindnesses (Bush).