Unusual friendships are fairly common in Hollywood and politics. Snooki and Sen. John McCain have bonded over tanning, for instance, and reality television star Kim Kardashian and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum might be the next dynamic duo to join the mix, as the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” icon said at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) that she likes the former Pennsylvania Senator even though she’s a Democrat.

Sure, Rick Santorum dropped out of the GOP race a full nine days ago (feels like a lifetime, right?) and sure, the Twitterverse already took its potshots on the former candidate. But a new “Funny Or Die” video responds to Santorum’s exit from the political arena in a whole new, brilliant way.

Bella Santorum doesn’t lead the blissful, carefree toddler existence that her healthy peers are lucky enough to do, but the 3-year-old can definitely say she has changed the lives of many Americans, inspired the families of kids with Trisomy 18, and created awareness of the rare chromosomal abnormality.

It’s a good thing that 3-year-old Bella Santorum, the daughter of former presidential contender Rick Santorum, isn’t old enough to be picking up a copy of the news, as The Sun just published what is perhaps the most offensive headline possible about her: “Sick daughter ends Ricky Santorum’s White House dream.”

This afternoon, as the disturbingly vast majority of us learned almost instantaneously, Rick Santorum chose to suspend is bid for the GOP nomination. Mitt Romney’s response to the decision was kind. Other peoples’ responses weren’t so much. And not that we’re big on kicking people when they’re down or anything… but let’s just say that Santorum’s concession speech unleashed Twitter’s magnificent collective creative juices in a big way today.

Sweater vests, swipes at Newt Gingrich, memories of Dan Savage’s tricky neologism, cracks at Santorum’s “retro” social sensibilities — it was all on the table.

Before they ran for president, the current candidates were young and impressionable. Some, like Mitt Romney, were far from well-spoken, but their mission to do big things was clear from the start. In light of the recent surfacing of videos featuring President Barack Obama and Romney before they became frontrunners for their respective political parties, we’ve compiled some footage of the contenders in the days prior to their presidential campaigns.

The primaries have been rough and undoubtedly taxing for presidential candidate Rick Santorum, whose youngest child Bella has just been admitted to the hospital for the second time this year.

Here’s one of the toughest dilemmas you’ll ever face: Sporting Rick Santorum’s signature sweater vest or donning a blue “Mitt Romney Super Fan” t-shirt.

If the decision is too hard for you to make, perhaps you can take the sales of each article of clothing into account. As reported by the Washington Post, only 346 of the $30 “Mitt Romney Super Fan” shirts have been sold whereas 3,000 of Santorum’s sweater vests have been bought — at a much steeper price of $100, no less.

What’s worse: Taking flak for a spur of the moment outburst or having an outside party try to make that incident all about him/her?

Many took notice when the Harris sisters of Oklahoma released their music video in support of presidential candidate Rick Santorum a few weeks ago, not just because it preaches some debatable issues, but also because of the impressive vocal skills of the young crooners. Anne of Chicago recognized the girls’ noteworthy abilities but disagreed immensely with their beliefs, so she created an eerily similar parody video titled “Go Home” to expose the dark side of Santorum.