Don't write this guy off so quickly. Senator Santorum of PA was regarded as a tough (impossible) sell. He is a fiscal conservative. He was very interested in the $26 billion per year cost savings if we cure Parkinson's. Conversely we showed him a graph of the "baby boom" and noted that if something wasn't done about these age related diseases, they were going to blow any attempts to balance the budget out of the water as the "baby boom" ages