Herman Cain: Santorum’s bid ‘doomed’

Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain predicted on Thursday that 2016 contender Rick Santorum (R) will not reach the White House next year.

“Rick Santorum announces doomed presidential bid with pretend journalist,” Cain tweeted of Santorum’s campaign announcement on Wednesday with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos.

Cain’s tweet also includes a link to an article on his Cain TV news website.

The article’s author, Robert Laurie, details why he does not find the former Pennsylvania senator a credible Oval Office candidate.

“To quickly sum it up, he’s angling to re-fight the values-and-morality campaign that failed him in [2012], and will have even less traction this time around,” Laurie wrote.

“Honestly, in an election cycle that’s shaping up to be a battle of youth versus the Democrats’ elderly, achievement-free throwback candidate, I’m starting to wonder why every GOP throwback candidate feels they need to enter the race,” he added.

Santorum announced his second presidential run on Wednesday at a manufacturing facility in Cabot, Pa.

“As Middle America is hollowed out, we can’t sit idly by as big government politicians make it harder for our workers and turn around and blame them,” Santorum said.

“Working families don’t need another president tied to big government or big money, and today is the day we are going to begin to fight back.”

Santorum’s entrance into the 2016 race added yet another contender for GOP voters in the party’s most crowded field in recent memory.

The ex-lawmaker, who sought the Republican nomination in the 2012 election cycle, is the seventh competitor for Republican voters during next year’s presidential election.

Mitt Romney bested him, Cain and several other candidates for the party’s nomination in 2012.