“Saturday Night Live” latched onto Clint Eastwood’s buzzy Super Bowl ad, granting the former mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea and Tinsel Town auteur carte blanche to let his true feelings totally hang out.

He needles pols across the ideological spectrum in the initial offing. But former Senator and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s panache for arm-bearing accessories earns him an extra-special shout-out: