When Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s Sugar Daddy, isn’t making lame jokes about women and Bayer aspirin and  keeping their knees together, he’s usually shoveling money into the pro-Santorum Super PAC Red White and Blue Fund to underwrite trash-talking TV spots like this one:

Not surprisingly, the ads from the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future are even more smashmouth. Representative sample:

But here comes Politico’s Morning Score to tell us all hope is not lost:

PRO-SANTORUM SUPER PAC GOES POSITIVE – “BOLD PLAN”: The Red White and Blue Fund is using its three quarters of a million dollar ad buy in Michigan to introduce Santorum to voters as a conservative family man. Watch the [relatively] soft, 30-second spot:

[Relatively] nice, eh? Just don’t expect them to make a habit of it.