ADEL, IOWA—Rick Santorum insisted he just felt like going hunting. But with just a week to go before Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses, it wasn’t quite that simple.
Dressed in a bright orange jacket and a baseball cap stitched with the letters “NRA,” Santorum embarked on a post-Christmas Day pheasant hunt outside Des Moines Monday, but it wasn’t just the birds he was aiming for.
At Santorum’s side was Rep. Steve King, an influential Iowa congressman whose 2012 endorsement is still up for grabs ahead of next week’s vote. Standing before a pack of reporters, the former Pennsylvania senator conceded that he hadn’t performed as well as he’d hoped on his excursion.
Santorum was talking about the birds—he’d killed just four, down from the six he’d bagged during his last hunting trip. But he might just as well have been talking about his main quarry—King, the Hawkeye state conservative leader, who told reporters in the wake of the pheasant-hunting trip that he still doesn’t know who he will endorse for the Republican nomination.
“I’ve got a few days yet before a decision has to be made,” King said, as Santorum awkwardly stood at his side. “I want my head and my heart to come together, and when that happens, and if that happens, I’ll jump in with both feet. I hope it’s not after the ship’s already left, but it could be.”
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