[Controlling Legal Authority]

Time for Newt to pull out and endorse Santorum. What? No? Wasn’t that what everyone was saying Santorum should do last week?

[BillyBoy]

Newt's supporters have been constantly saying Santorum needs to drop out and endorse Newt so conservatives can "stop Romney", but if he had done so this week, today's headlines would read "Romney surge continues with big wins in Missouri, Minnesota. Political experts: After 4-state sweep, Romney nomination seen as inevitable"

Of course, they've been saying "only Newt can stop Romney" before Newt had even won a single primary, so today's results will probably be cited as more "proof" that only Newt can win.

Perhaps one of the "Santorum should drop out to stop Romney" freepers can tell me which primary would have gone differently if Santorum hadn't been running? Certainly not Missouri, unless you're going to make a case Newt would have waged a massively successful and unprecedented write-in campaign that topped Storm Thurmond and Lisa Murkowski. Even in Florida, if Santorum had "dropped out", endorsed Romney, and gotten EVERY single one of his voters to support Newt (which certainly wouldn't have happened as some would have voted for Romney, Ron Paul, or stayed home)... but let's go with the statistically impossible scenario of ALL the Santorum's voters in FL switching en masse to Newt... it STILL wouldn't have changed the results.

How exactly does Santorum dropping out "stop Romney"? If this is the most (and only) important issue in the primary, let's hear some evidence how it works.

[Apollo5600]

Toobad Santorum is a RINO, otherwise I’d be excited about this.