The candidate that would be the biggest disaster for the GOP. Rick Santorum, hands down. Come on, folks. Here’s a guy who as much as says that sex is for making babies .. and if you’re not trying to make a baby you should keep it in your pants. Yes, he appeals to the turbos, but he is a complete disaster when it comes to independent voters, especially women. If there is one certainty in this election it is that Santorum cannot … and that is a no-way-in-hell cannot … beat Barack Obama.
Santorum would be an auto-loss - on a massive, landslide defeat scale. We'd lose the House along with it. Mitt would likely lose narrowly, Rick would be absolutely crushed.
Still hoping people come to their senses and get behind Newt. Gingrich is the only alternative at this point, but it seems like the social values voters are determined to make a statement and back Santorum even though he has not even the slightest chance of winning a general election.
And that would be a complete mischaracterization of how Santorum would govern. Santorum is not pushing for Catholic religious norms to be ensconced in American law. But Mitt is an active bishop of the LDS.