What's wrong with this passage (from Adam Nagourney in the Sunday New York Times)? Answer below:

... the campaign of 2006 has, to put it mildly, clearly diminished the prospects of three once-big-name prospective candidates.

[George] Allen leads the list. He ran a campaign that was marked by missteps, and he may well be remembered as the man who cost Republicans control of the Senate this year. That is not going to endear him to Republican activists or contributors.

Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, his party’s contender in 2004, underlined doubts about his political skills when he told what he described as a botched joke, which President Bush pounced on and tried to portray as an insult to American troops. Mr. Kerry’s associates said they were resigned to the fact that he would have headed the Democrats’ blame list had they lost this time; at least he avoided that designation.

Finally, there’s Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader who is retiring but who just last spring won a Republican straw poll in Memphis that he portrayed as a sign of his strength as a presidential contender. No more. A contentious Senate session that failed to produce much major legislation — followed by this loss — has led many Republicans to cross Mr. Frist off their 2008 list.

What's wrong with it?

Well, notice who's not mentioned. Apparently Rick Santorum is such a big loser he couldn't even get a mention on Nagourney's list of big losers.