Voters seeking a constitutional conservative for president who are overlooking or underestimating Rick Santorum might be doing so at their and the country's peril.  As Quin Hillyer, a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom and an editor of The American Spectator, wrote in July 2010: "...conservatives do themselves and their cause a huge disservice if they don't take a Rick Santorum candidacy seriously. It would be crazy not to acknowledge that the odds seem long. But he has beaten the odds, repeatedly, before, and he knows how to leverage public opinion for conservative ends." At the time of that article, Rick Santorum barely registered in campaign polls and trailed most other GOP nomination contenders.  A year and half later, Santorum leapfrogged the field and essentially tied Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucus.  Hillyer wasn't alone in his prognostication, of course, but he seems especially well-versed in the former U.S. Senator from...(Read Full Post)