Jan. 4th (right after Iowa): Santorum 24% (Second Place)
January 5,6,7th: Santorum 19% (Third Place)
But hey, I went through this with Huckabee last time. Iowa is the whole nomination to some folks. No wonder it gets so much attention - it is all it takes to get Conservicide voters to jump to the next Huckabee/Santorum.
Soon, just like with Fred Thompson, Santorum folks will be demanding that everyone who has been vetted and is loaded with money and organization drop out and support their long-shot upstart trying to make Iowa the entire GOP nomination, based entirely on a wing and a prayer and a second-place finish in IA.
And long-shot upstart Huckabee actually managed to trump Romney in Iowa, as opposed to long-shot upstart Santorum.
I will not commit Conservicide again with Santuckabee. No more hopeless long-shots with no money or organization who do well in Iowa after living there for two years. No more.
I honestly don’t have much faith that Romney won’t be the nominee at this point, but if I had to pick a candidate to choose as his main opponent, I think it would have to be Newt. That’s coming from a long-standing Rick Santorum fan.
I was excited after Rick’s 2nd-place finish in Iowa because I thought he’d be able to capitalize on it. Seeing him in action yesterday evening got us such gems as “Iran is America’s #1 problem” and an attempt to criticize Willard Romney the open socialist for being...a business leader?
I’m sorry, but that just won’t cut it. I still think Rick is easily the most pro-life, pro-family candidate of the lot, but I have to concede that Newt is a much better communicator. What good is having a better product if you can’t sell it?
If I had to guess, Herman Cain will probably put forward an endorsement proposal related to his group, the 9-9-9 plan, or both. Maybe he’ll try to get people to join his new splinter group by promising to endorse whoever the members choose.
You wanna know something, Titan?
You didn’t get behind Santorum when Santorum was second. I sure as heck ain’t gettin behind Newt now that Newt is second.
If Newt was a winner, he would have kept his support from before. He didn’t, so he’s slid from 36 percent nationally to below Santorum.