Somewhere, Thomas Wolfe Is Laughing*

   It's a nice twist: after getting clobbered in Illinois, Rick Santorum needs a campaign bailout from home:

          ...But for some in the party, Mr. Santorum may be a tough sell to Pennsylvania voters. He lost his last Senate race here in 2006 by more than 17 percentage points, and that has spooked some into thinking that if he was the presidential nominee, he could drag down other Republican candidates in November.

          “There’s a serious concern if he were at top of ticket he would jeopardize the attorney general, the auditor general and some House seats,” said Charles Gerow, a former Santorum ally who now heads Mr. Gingrich’s campaign in Pennsylvania. “His loss in 2006 is not that far away in the minds of many Pennsylvania Republicans.”

          ...In a conference call last week, Phil English, a former congressman from Pennsylvania who has backed Mr. Romney, said that none of the members of the Pennsylvania delegation who served with Mr. Santorum when he was in the Senate had endorsed him for president.

          “That may seem like an anomaly,” Mr. English said. “But the fact is, it is very significant and a strong indicator of what’s going on right now in Pennsylvania.”

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     Author, You Can't Go Home Again (1940). On the other hand, Santorum may be siding with Robert Frost, who declared- in "Death of the Hired Man" (1915), "Home is the place where, when you have to go there/They have to take you in."