Santorum is a solid conservative, but he also lost his home state of PA by 18 points in the 2006 Senate race. Sorry, but nationally he is dead in the water. He has no organization and the stink of that crushing Senate defeat leaves too many electability issues for Rick to have any chance to win the nomination. The big money will never go to his campaign and it will be easy for any candidate with money and organization to tear him to shreds. Santorum won't be the nominee. Santorum needs to go back to PA and win something to erase the stench of losing his last race by 18 points and regenerate confidence in potential supporters that it is worth risking money and time to back him.
I myself initially mocked Santorum running because of the size of that loss. But we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Time is up. It was a horrible year (not just for him) and he was running against the ghost of Casey the lesser’s (sainted for some reason) dead father as much as was running against Casey the lesser himself. That doesn’t mean the loss doesn’t matter but it offers an explanation.
He doesn’t have any money, now. He becomes the new anti-Romney and he’ll get some. All Perry’s money couldn’t by him a clue.
In a general election I’d much rather go with Santorum than
RINO Romney,, Rick “will remind people of Bush” Perry, Newt “so many things I could put here” Gingrich or Ron “Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs” Paul.