If Santorum can handle the first two or three salvos with a combination of good humor and common sense, he’ll be well on the way to putting an end to both Romney’s Super Pac hate machine, and Romney’s candidacy.
But if Santorum can’t handle them, well, better to know it now than after he’s nominated.
Personally, I hope Santorum’s successful in parrying the inevitable attacks and that Romney finally gets his due for his consistent neglect of Reagan’s 11th Commandment. What goes around does come around...eventually.
That is how Gingrich disappointed me. He couldn’t stay from the toxic flames. He finally fired back in kind thus kicking his own butt. I pray that Santorum can maintain a cheerful good nature and not reply in kind. That is the biggest lesson from Reagan’s primary fight. The biggest problem then is that Romney’s face is going to be in front of people 10 to 1 for Santorum’s face. Romney’s campaign money is pretty close to infinite. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Democrats or Soros would be a huge source if his funds do manage to run low. Romney will also have the advantage of the Democrat Republicans-for-a-day vote.