If there is a non-Romney majority, but no single candidate has a majority, I think the more likely result is Rick Santorum as the compromise candidate who is acceptable to all sides. His one major drawback is a lack of money and organization, and once you’re the party’s nominee, that problem all goes away.
He has the clean-cut, boy scout image that some voters (incorrectly) have of Romney, and he has Gingrich’s conservatism. But he doesn’t have money.
Okay, but what executive experience does he have? Speaker Gingrich ran the House in what many consider the second most important position in the US government. Gov. Romney, of course, ran a state and a company, as well as the Olympics. What has Rick done that even comes close? Don’t we already have a neophyte senator fowling things up?
I believe that when Santorum drops out if he does, he will endorse Romney, just like he endorsed Spectre.
I do not trust Santorum.
Santorum is an establishment guy who made no waves in the Senate for 2 terms and has a deadly unpleasant personality that manages to pick up all the worst parts of Jimmy Carter prissiness. Nobody will vote for him.
We’re voting for somebody’s wife and children.
Sorry, that is, we’re NOT voting for somebody’s wife and children. Santorum is not a conservative in any way except for his pro-life positions, and even then his rating is lower than Gingrich’s.
Are you smoking crank again?
Santorum is acceptable to somewhere between 10 and 15% of the the GOP primary electorate.
That means he's acceptable to <5% of the general electorate.
That's some of the silliest sh!t I ever heard.