Well, since Santorum is ahead of Gingrigh and Perry, I think they should be the ones to drop out. Why should a conservative who is beating two “heartless” RINOS be the one to drop out?
We have our first true conservative candidate surging, not the mandate lover Gingrich or the heartless Rick Perry. I’ll take the conservative that is winning.
Don’t get me wrong Santorum fans. I like Rick. He’d be my second or third choice - tied with Perry.
But he’s just not going to make it. If he performs about expectations in Iowa, it will only served to damage Newt and Perry - the only two left standing that could possibly give Romney a run for his money. Perry’s shot is also a long shot (his down state polling numbers are in the basement), both against Romney and Obama.
Santorum must by now be an A-list cabinet pick for Romney, for the favor these bottom tier, broke candidates have given him. Romney is capable of paying off Bachmann’s abominable debt and Santorum’s also, if they will just continue to carp from the sidelines and distract and destroy the rise of any and all non-Romneys.
This strategy seems to be selling like hotcakes on FR threads today.
I think the Santorum Surge (hey I should copyright that..LOL) has hurt Romney, not helped
If Santorum wins Iowa, or comes in second and ahead of Romney....Romney will run into trouble in the Southern states.
Santorum does not have the baggage of some of the other candidates, and actually handles the media well.
I am not in the Santorum camp, but I would have no problem supporting for him in the general election...will not have to hold my nose voting for him
Santorum has gone UP since he publicly flat out said he’d fold it up if he were dead last in Iowa... and, he’ll go up more in the aftermath of the MB’s issues with the State Senator bolting to the Paulinistas, and the associated crap. Perry will pick-up form it as well.
Perry and Gingrich both blew their chances already. Santorum is both more conservative than and a better potential general election candidate than both of them.
Both are now splitting the anti Romney vote in Iowa.