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IMO - Santorum votes were primarily negative votes and he was the beneficiary of the "I can't vote for Romney - too Liberal", "I can't vote for Ron Paul - too wacky" and the "I can't vote for Newt - too much baggage" demographic.
OTOH, the votes for Romney, Paul and Newt were positive votes for their candidates.
Elmer Fudd would probably have done as well.
That no one has more than 25% support should be troubling to the party.

That no one has more than 25% support should be troubling to the party

So true...what a pathetic field. So now Santorum is the "conservative choice"? Santorum also benefitted from surging so late that his record is still not well known...yet, on fiscal matters, Santorum is terrible. Rush is trying to paper over the Santorum's issues by pointing out that he's not for big government like Obama and the Democrats are for big government. That's our standard now??...a "true conservative" is someone who is something less than a full blown socialist?

Never mind that Rush once said at the end of GWB's administration that he was "tired of carrying water" for the big government so-called conservatives. He now seems to be trying to sell his listeners on another "real conservative" that voted for NCLB, Medicare prescription drug expansion, Sarbanes-Oxley, ethanol subsidies, federal housing assistance for prospective low income buyers, etc, etc....a "real conservative that bragged in his own campaign literature about sponsoring legislation to crack down on "price gouing by big oil companies" (sounds like Obama)...a "real conservative" who was a proud provider of billions of dollars of pork for his district and state

You are wrong. Santorum's stand on the issue of the Right to Life BY ITSELF is far too polarizing for anyone to choose him by default. If someone casts a vote for Rick Santorum it is because they LIKE how polarizing he is and agree with him that we need to be going in the polar opposite direction from Obama - no half-stepping like we'd get with a Newt-Romney.

Here is a link to his speech last night.. Everything this man says argues against your post.