Rick Santorum: Sweater vests 'gave me this power'
By Alana Semuels
January 12, 2012, 1:55 p.m.
Reporting from Beaufort, S.C.—
Voters posed many questions to Rick Santorum during an event at the Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club, where Spanish moss hung from trees and white boats bobbed on still water. But the one that made the audience sit up and listen wasn't about healthcare or defense or taxes. It was about sweater vests.
"Senator, I've seen you on national TV," asked a man, who was not, himself, wearing a sweater vest. "And I just have to ask – how many sweater vests do you own?"
Santorum, wearing a navy blue sweater vest with his name printed on the breast, chuckled, and let the audience know they could own one just like it. Then he launched into some history, at times drawing laughter, which is sometimes in short supply at campaign events. He wore a sweater vest, he explained, to an event in Iowa in which he performed particularly well. That event, he said, was one of the events that turned around his campaign in the Hawkeye State, helping him come in just eight votes behind front-runner Mitt Romney.
People commented on his vest after the event, he said, and "it sort of took a life of its own ... and the vest gave me this power." The next day, he wore another one, he said. Though he had only brought two sweater vests to Iowa, his aides went out and bought some more. "When you're sitting at 2% in the polls, any recognition is a good thing -- and the vest started getting me some recognition."
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-santorum-sweater-vests-20120112,0,498009.story
*splat*
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Remember the book says mixed fibers are a no-no! 
Also. I find your lack of an avatar to be without style. 
...he could be wearing a magic jockstrap...
Why Joe Bacon must you pollute my mind with such thoughts? 
And I bet Karen has the key locked in a safe deposit box!
