Another Fox News employee who apparently has their eye on the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is reportedly taking a hand in Iowa politics. According to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder, Fox News contributor Rick Santorum is forming a political action committee in Iowa to boost Republican candidates there.

Maybe Santorum -- and fellow Fox employees Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich, all of whom have spent time there in recent months -- just really, really likes the state of Iowa and thinks the state's GOP deserves special attention.

But it seems far more likely that Santorum -- as well as Palin, Huckabee, and Gingrich - is trying to improve his position for a 2012 presidential run, and thus is raising his profile for Iowa's first-in-the-nation primary.

Together with John Bolton, Fox has five potential GOP presidential candidates on the payroll, “speak[ing] through” the network and raising money for Republican candidates. And yesterday, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch explained that his company gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association because of his “friendship with John Kasich” - the former Fox host currently running for governor of Ohio.

FoxPAC just keeps rolling along.