Two heads are better than one. It took Sean Kinsell to make me finally figure out Senator Rick Santorum’s reelection strategy. After trying without much success to make sense out of his strategy, I’ve finally concluded that he’s running an…

On Friday (Veterans Day, when politicians seem to love such things), Santorum raised the ante from a “scheduling conflict” to a full-blown assault on Bush for insufficiently strong language. This was at the same time, same state, as Bush’s controversial speech, and was attributed to another scheduling conflict.

Santorum has my sympathy, as it must be tough facing a pro-life Democrat. But if he runs to the right of himself and Casey holds the center, I’m not sure there are enough Toomey-style voters to carry it for him.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d almost swear that Santorum wants to be running against an incumbent. Not that there’s anything wrong with an anti-incumbent strategy, mind you. But isn’t Santorum overlooking something?

I’ll be very interested to see what Casey offers. Joseph Hoeffel, the null set who ran for the Dems against Specter last year, will not be a hard act to follow, certainly. A lot will depend on how Santorum pitches himself. I don’t think his hissy over the Bush administration when Bush was in PA a few days ago is going to do him many favors, but voters could forget all about that within a year.

Has he managed to establish a credible in-state residency yet?