yada yada yada - you insist on changing the subject. You can’t change the fact that Santorums vaprous campaign was kept alive by Mitt’s money, or the express purpose of beating Newt. Now, did both Mitt and Newt under estimate Santorum’s appeal to those anyone but Mitt voters? Yep, and I was inside Newt’s PAC warning about this as early as the first week of January. Did they make mistakes? Damn right they did. But that was after the period this article is talking about.
But nothing changes the fact that Santorum has no appeal outisde of a slice of the GOP electorate, and nothing changes the fact that he is a pro life liberal on may issues regarding unions, environmental issues, and big government. And nothing changes the fact that while he has a narrow slice of folks who loved him, he was offputting the vast majority of the country. He just doesn’t have that much ability.
What Newt and Mitt missed is that with Mitt’s scorched earth campaign, and teeny tiny turn outs in all states AFTER South Carolina, that narrow slice of Santorum support was a big percentage of the shrunken universe.
But again, nothing changes the fact that his campaign was floated by Rove and Mitt money for the purpose of destroying Gingrich.
As I said then, with FL the writing was on the wall: it was going to be Romney. And it was.
Santorum supporters can continue to spin and deny and demagogue all they like but that's the history.