Etch-a-sketch Romney and potty mouth Santorum  David Horsey /
Los Angeles Times (March 26, 2012)  On Sunday, Rick Santorum
spat out the B and S word at New York Times reporter Jeff
Zeleny, who had asked him an annoying question. The testy
exchange demonstrated how candidates, reporters and, very
likely, the public, have grown weary of the unending Republican
primary campaign.  Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have
been giving variations of the same stump speech at least since
January. Journalists who have been trailing the candidates have
heard it all so often they can recite the lines themselves.
That's why any shift in the message, no matter how meaningless,
can clang like a cowbell in a reporter's ears.  For months,
Santorum has insisted that Romney is not the best choice to go
up against Barack Obama because the president's healthcare plan
was based on the Massachusetts healthcare plan that became law
while Romney was that state's governor. Santorum believes
"Obamacare" is the root of all evil and