Ok, lets play, Romneybot.
Santorum’s Pennsylvania buddy Mark Levin has already endorsed Romney on his show. You wait and see, after Romney wins the Pennsylvania primary, Santorum will endorse if asked, and also has a D.C. job waiting.
The “evangelicals” who supported Santorum were taken for a ride, and now are sheepishly going with Romney like the other Santorum supporters.
What we really need is for the progressives in the party to take their thumbs off the scale and stop writing the rules to favor their hand-picked liberal candidates.
Like Romney.
What game are we playing? The “Let’s Agree” Game?
Of course Santorum will endorse Romney. And from these comments, so will Newt...and from her comments, so will Palin.
And if they had got on the same page early on, then one of them could’ve beaten Romney in the primaries and we wouldn’t have this problem.
That's not true.
It may become true if Romney wins the nomination, but McCain had huge problems winning the evangelical vote until he nominated Sarah Palin.
There are reasons he did that.
I can't imagine what Romney, who is a much worse candidate than McCain, will do to get enthusiastic support from evangelicals.
Demographics don't lie. Evangelicals have horrible turnout percentages unless they're highly motivated to vote for a candidate, and in the South, many are former (or even current) Democrats who routinely vote for local conservative Democrats for local and state office. Rich guy Romney hits all the wrong buttons -- Yankee, filthy rich, Ivy League, member of a cult -- to antagonize blue collar and rural Southern evangelicals. I can't see Obama winning lots of rural Southern whites, but I can see rural Southern whites saying there's no point in voting because both candidates are bad.
True, I wouldn't be surprised to see a number of prominent evangelical leaders say that Obama is so bad that we need to vote “anybody but Obama.” But that's not happening yet, it may not happen in large numbers before the nomination, and even if it does, lots of evangelicals are going to sit out the election entirely.
As for me, I'll be voting in November. What I do with the top of the ticket is an open question and I don't yet know the answer myself.