Next in Line: Rick Santorum Begins 2016 Run

Here's another sign Mitt Romney's campaign is failing. Republicans who elevated Mitt Romney as the next in line as John McCain failed are now moving Santorum into that position for 2016.

Yahoo! news reports Santorum is making frequent trips to Iowa.


Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who won a majority of the Iowa Republican caucus votes in January when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination, is heading back to the Hawkeye State this month, a suggestion that he may be considering another run for president.

Santorum will travel to Sioux City in northwest Iowa—a region that overwhelming supported his presidential bid earlier this year—on Sept. 20 to headline an event with the Conservative Alliance of Iowa to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Santorum will make the trip through his new advocacy group, Patriot Voices, which he launched after leaving the presidential race last spring.

The trip to Iowa isn't his first since his January victory. Santorum returned to Iowa for what he called a "Thank You Tour" in June and will travel back to the state at least once more this fall after the Sept. 20 event, spokeswoman Virginia Davis told Yahoo News.

Let's look back to last month when the multitude of speakers at the Republican National Convention seemed afraid to say Mitt Romney's name. On editorial in the Sun Sentinel writes, "it appears the only way he could get anyone except his wife to speak on his behalf was to let them unofficially launch their 2016 campaigns for president — and barely mention him."

Of course Rick Santorum barely mentions Mitt Romney in his RNC speech. Eyeing 2016 Rick?