The smartest thing Santorum could do is use the momentum from Iowa for trying to get back in the senate, instead of wasting it on a no-chance for South Carolina.
Santorum’s big moment in the debate was calling Romney out for a convicted felon vote.. back and forth back and forth .. Santorum stumbling and bumbling over his words and thoughts trying to get his questions out.. ok a single hit by Santorum but nobody really cared.. everybody knows Romney is a big B.S artist.... BORING the debate was dragging
then out of nowhere Newt Gingrich (without worrying about how his answers would poll) whips out one of the strongest debate performances ever seen by a candidate running for President.. he hit one grandslam after another on some of the main issues Conservatives feel strongest about,
Gingrich sat up there and in very few words laid out exactly who we are and what we stand for and what we believe... the man got a standing ovation from hundreds of people who weren’t even behind him when they came in.. Frank Luntz said he had never seen that in his life
as it was happening my 83 year old father says “do you think anybody else on that stage could have elevated the discussion to that level, on their own and unrehearsed?.. no way in the world Romney could have done that”
he was elevating the whole debate to the big picture issues of our day and did it like Reagan used to do,,, the poverty corridor example was so much like “are you better off than you were four years ago?” that it brought instant reminisces of the Gipper vs Carter