I Am the New Number Two

You might recall The Prisoner, a classic television show from the late 60s.

Each week Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) had to deal with a new authoritarian figure, always named the Number 2, last week's Number 2 having met some horrible end at the end of the previous episode.

So in the frantic scramble by the Rethugs to dethrone Number 1 (Romney) there have been a whole series of Number 2 people. Santorum is only the latest, and is being played up by the suckass media as the new Great White Hope, even though his four victories yesterday were, at the bottom, meaningless since they garnered him exactly zero delegates.

When The Prisoner was airing for the first time, I always thought that the worst job in the whole world was to be Number 2 . He died almost every week and then there was a different guy who claimed, "I am the new Number 2". Who always informed McGoohan that he was Number 6, and then usually died by the end of the episode.

So buh-bye Ricky. You're as doomed as the rest of them.