During his concession suspension speech on Monday, Rick Santorum said he "was winning in a different way," which was right in Jon Stewart's wheelhouse,  especially with the Santorum's odd euphemisms for losing, and patting himself on the back by insinuating his run to second place was as "improbable" and miraculous as they come. Though Stewart doesn't seem too upset that the "Pennsylvania Prude" is dropping out, you know that there's a part of him that will miss being able to rip on the fallen nominee. We'll miss Santorum for that reason, too, but at least our loss was soothed by one of our most favorite things: Jon Stewart figuring out a way to work Herman Cain into the picture: 

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Alexander Abad-Santos