I’m not going to even try to explain Santorum’s lead in the polls because, frankly, I don’t understand it. To me, Santorum was always a marginal candidate at best. I considered Tim Pawlenty a far superior candidate to Santorum, and I didn’t think much of Pawlenty either. Like I said, I don’t understand it.
Given the growing likelihood that Gingrich will be forced to dropout, Santorum’s support will likely grow even more and that could lead to real problems for Romney. I posted something just last week over the growing similarities between Romney and Hilary Clinton’s campaign. Both were strong, well funded, and had plenty of support in the early states only to lose out down the stretch.
I don’t want to sound too hateful or harsh here but if the GOP runs Santorum in the general election, Obama will trounce him harder than he did McCain.
Well, I think he’s just about the worst candidate running on the GOP side, but at least he’s not Romney.
That pretty much sums up the reason he is gaining ground. As people get to know him though I think that he will fall by the wayside as all of the other momentary front-runners (like Bachman, Perry, Cain, and Gingrich did before him. At this point I think that the only guy who could stand up to Romney is probably Gingrich since Santorum will fade once people figure out how nutty his religious beliefs are. I don’t think Paul ever had a chance for two reasons, his fringe foreign policy and his otherwise not so bad domestica policy which while it might be acceptable to someone like me would likely not fare as well in the general election.
–Brian
Brian, I think that’s as good as I’ve heard or read.
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Brian, you`re right on the money, Santorum has some history that Romney`s millions will bring into stark reality. I agree that Gingrich is the only one that has the killer instincts, combined with the knowledge to put Obama`s history, actions and true loyalties out in the open – it`s what wakes Axlerod up with the night sweats. As with the treatment of Palin in the last election, these radical leftists will show exactly who they are afraid of – they think the voters are too stupid to see through their actions, in past elections they were right, but it is different this time – the vast majority of middle America does not answer the phone polls – the 2010 elections prove that. In hard delegates, Gingrich trails Romney, but not by much, Santorum is in the basement with Dr. Paul – the media articles crowning Romney reflect their fear of Gingrich. We have elected an American President that has a grudge against America and disdain for the Constitution that protects his right to inflict that grudge on the population – it will be a hard lesson for us all – hard lessons are the ones long remembered, any budding communist pretenders would do well to remember that.