[Ranjit]

Now, here is a true conservative. For all those people who are compromising on Newt or Romney, they should think about Santorum. For a life of me, I never understood why we kept going from one candidate to another, when we have a solid conservative with a good legislature experience and comes from an important state which has a good chance of flipping in November 2012

[chiller]

Thanks to Sarah for the Santorum bump. I figure his time is coming after the Iowa cauci, where he's spent lots of time. Reportedly, Newt's doing well, so look for a Gingerich/Santorum 1-2 finish. Rick will get his time in the sun and grab lots of Cain votes, Bachman votes, etc.

Not much baggage with Santorum, and fantastic conservative ratings. Debates well, stands up for conservatism very well and unapologetically. He'll be charged with nothing worse than being a real conservative and all that entails. He was in the Senate's Leadership when he was probably almost forced to back Specter over Toomey, since that's the guy the rest of R leadership supported.

I maintain he's been slow to rise to the top because he's not been a "happy warrior"....more of an unhappy warrior. He's come off as very serious.

Smile, Rick....have some fun with this. we'd be in good hands with Rick in charge.