[bigbob]

Well I think most of us have gone through some form of the following calculation:

Most of us see Romney as RINO, moderate, liberal, and/or the devil incarnate.

Ron Paul’s libertarian ideas are interesting until he becomes a fruit loop on foreign policy that would get us all killed.

Bachmann and Perry never were ready for prime time, and the MSM and party smear machine denied us the opportunity to vote for someone completely unique like Herman Cain.

So that leaves us with the choice of Santorum or Gingrich. If you set debate and rhetorical capability aside for a moment and assess the comparative weaknesses of each man and the number of things in their past record that they have to apologize for or try to explain away, Santorum comes out on top. Factor the debate skills and persona back in, and it gets a lot closer. Neither candidate is perfect but neither is fatally flawed, and both have pros and cons vs one another.

And that’s where we are. If the Santorum Surge continues to hold, it will tell us which factors have held the greater influence.

[4rcane]

I find it so funny how the media been trying to shoot at any gop candidate that they think is ahead. For a while it was Bachman, Cain, Perry, Romney, Newt, then Sanctorum

[American Constitutionalist]

Tell us it ain't so STEELFISH !!

Come on now, Newt supporters and Newt's money man are winding up to give us Romney for the GOP, opps, wait a minute,

They are winding up to take out the man who is actually beating Romney at this point, no, wait a minute,

They are winding up to go after Rick Santorum who has actually a chance to beat Romney in Michigan, Ohio, Arizona ? no, wait a minute.

Wait, we were told by all the Newt supporters that they don't want Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee , but now they are working to give us just that, a Romney GOP nominee... who would have thought.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

ABR. Amen.