You live in a fantasy world if you think Newt or Mittens can beat Rick Santorum at this point. The PRIMARY is effectively over Newt should do us all a favor and keep going after Romney and Paul with the money he has left while positioning himself to be Chief of Staff or Sr. Advisor to President Rick Santorum
I am not living in a fantasy world at all. Santorum does have a decent chance of getting the nomination. But I don’t think he’ll be much better than Mitt frankly. He is a fake conservative and he will be vomited out by the general public. He will be an absolute disaster of a candidate.
Against Obama, that still might be good enough to win, and I’ll vote for him.
And FTR, he still trails Newt in the total popular vote. None of Santorums “wiins” were real primaries. They were all tiny caucuses except for Missouri, which was neither a caucus or a real primary. And exit polls showed Newt might have won Missouri had he been on the ballot.
RS has yet to mobilize anything but a niche of social conservatives. The way this crazy year has played out, that may get him the nomination. What a nightmare indeed.