So you think that Rick Santorum is carrying water for Romney when he bitch-slapped him across three states yesterday, and said in his victory speech that we need to nominate a conservative, not a moderate like Romney? To stay with the basketball analogy that you introduced, you’re falling for your own pump-fake here.
Herman Cain was not a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Rick Perry was not a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Michele Bachmann was not a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Newt Gingrich is not, and has never been, a stalking horse for Mitt Romney (I think I recall some Perry fans making this silly claim at some point).
And Rick Santorum is not, and has never been, a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Just because some people (and in CO, MO and MN, apparently many, many people) like another conservative candidate better than your preferred conservative candidate does not mean that they or the candidate are secretly plotting to help a liberal like Mitt Romney get the nomination. I don’t begrudge you for supporting Newt (I’m assuming you support Newt; if you support Ron Paul, then you’ve got bigger issues than a slight persecution complex), because Newt is a conservative, and if you prefer him to Santorum that’s your right. (If you preferred a liberal to Santorum, that would also be your right, but then you’d be in the wrong forum.)
You should try to convince Santorum supporters that Newt Gingrich is a better conservative than Santorum, or has a better chance of defeating Romney than does Santorum, or would have an easier time defeating Obama in the general than would Santorum, not post ridiculous innuendo about a fellow conservative.
LOL! That's being bitch slapped saying Romney is a moderate? He's saying what the media has been saying all along. And if Rick told the truth, he'd say he's NOT even a moderate. He's barry #2.
Rick Perry was the only candidate who was NOT playing the Mitt game!