(WASHINGTON TIMES) — In the annals of unexpected endorsements, it tops Fake Gorbachev slow-clapping for Sylvester Stallone at the end of “Rocky IV”: Last week, heavy metal guitarist Dave Mustaine — Megadeth front man, longtime earthly vessel of sonically demonic sturm und drang — sized up the Republican presidential field and expressed his greatest admiration for … Rick Santorum.

The guy in the sweater vest.

The old-fashioned social conservative.

The total, irredeemable, square.

Why would a lifelong rocker back the least headbanging candidate since Bob Dole? Try this: In an online interview, Mr. Mustaine said that he liked the fact that Mr. Santorum took time off from campaigning to care for his ill daughter, and that he hasn’t engaged in the same level of down ‘n’ dirty attack advertising as rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

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