[Indy Pendance]

I'm not advocating, just inquiring. Does he have a chance? We all wrote off Herman Cain in the early days, then he surged. Will Santorum surge? I like him a lot, but I'm realistic. So, what do you all think?

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[Mountain Mary]

“Does he have a chance?” No
“Will Santorum surge?” No

[mkjessup]

Santorum lost any possibility of getting my support when he chose to back that RINO-turncoat Arlen Specter over a TRUE conservative, Pat Toomey.

FURS!!!!

Santorum needs to pack it in and stop being a nuisance. He's not going anywhere except into the history books as a footnote.

[presently no screen name]

Don’t know much about him but having watched the last few debates only - I thought he did great and wondered by he was at only 1 or 2%.

[Yaelle]

He was awesome at today’s debate. I was crying.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Santorum comes off as a poorly on TV. He just has zero “it” factor. Does not come off as a leader at all. I interviewed him in person for 20 minutes. Comes off better in person.

[Paladin2]

Doomberg came out on the bottom of my list, below Zer0.

[dirtboy]

As a resident of PA, I have several problems with Santorum:

1) his backing of Specter over Toomey in 2004

2) His continued support for earmarks.

3) His absorbtion into the Beltway culture

4) And the fact that he got his arse kicked in 2006 - as an incumbent.

[Longbow1969]

Lost his home state of Pennsylvania by like 18 points last time around. It really undermines his claim that he can win PA and rust belt states. He also just doesn’t come across well. I can’t put my finger on it, but I guess he just seems too uptight and not very presidential. Finally, Santorum is sort of known as big on social issues and this election will likely be far more about the economy.

Santorum is a good man, but I don’t think he is going to see a poll boomlet like Cain and Gingrich have. Actually, I’d be thrilled to have either Santorum or Bachmann is President, but I really don’t think they have any chance. For whatever reason, they just don’t project the presidential image I guess people are looking for.

[ken21]

he comes across as having a chip on his shoulder—as if he’s owed public office.

[JimWayne]

Santorum is a RINO cheat. Just because he spews the right sound bites does not make him a conservative. He earmarked money for community block development programs, voted for subsidies for ethanol supposedly to prevent global warming, demanded money for Amtrak projects to help unions, endorsed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey and triangulated his position on abortion in 1990. He repeatedly voted to raise the debt limit.

Right now, he is positioning himself to be the running mate of Mitt Romney so that in case Romney gets the nomination, the frauds can come and tell us that we should support the ticket since the VP choice is that of a conservative.

Santorum is also acceptable to Karl Rove which makes him yet another crooked politician whose rhetoric is conservative but whose record is liberal.

[mnehring]

Something is screwy with that survey. I changed some answers and it keeps putting Santorum at the top. Even changing some to liberal answers as an experiment. (I even changed answers to things like supporting Obamacare, etc and Santorum always ended up on top..)

I wonder if that site is owned by a certain campaign’s camp?

[mnehring]

Yep, that poll is screwy. I just changed all the answers to ‘liberal’ answers and it still shows Santorum on top.

1. Ideal Theoretical Candidate (100%)

2. Rick Santorum* (74%)

[Saundra Duffy]

He would make a great VP. He would make a great President, too, but for some reason he just didn’t make it into the top tier. I like him a lot!!

[napscoordinator]

Mine says I support Santorum by 92 percent. Michele Bachmann at 84 percent and Herman Cain by 82 percent. Newt Ginrige by 54 percent. Ricardo Perry is at 18 percent. Hillary Clinton is 16 percent. Can you imagine that Ricardo Perry and Hillary Clinton are practically the same. No wonder I can’t stand Perry and finally can say he is a true LIBERAL!!!!!

[Cicero]

I think Santorum was a good man. Karl Rove wrecked his career when he twisted his arm to endorse Arlen Specter. I think Rove and Bush told him to endorse Specter or else.

It was all downhill from there. I urged people at the time to support Santorum, because he was an excellent Senator with a good record. But the Specter endorsement finished him, and he never recovered.

Good work, Karl! How’d that work out?

[freedumb2003]

Interesting - I also showed Sen. Santorum in #1 at 88% and Mr. Cain at 60% (Mr. Gingrich is also in the 80%s). It doesn’t mean I am going to switch since it is too small a number of questions to actually portray the candidates.

[Lazlo in PA]

I see that the Rick haters didn't take long to roll in here to slam him for an endorsement and losing a very tough election stacked against him. I enjoy that even though the other candidates have totally terrible records as far as being a Conservative, Rick keeps getting slammed for this stupid stuff. I will take Santorum any day of the week over the other open borders, pro global warming, Nat'l sales taxing, Romneycaring, mandating, stumbling, bumbling, blame America first candidates.

[Ken H]

Says I should vote for Hitler!

[prisoner6]

NO! He is an Elsie Hillman style republican. No!

NO!