“Happy with that outcome, are ya?”
Not in the least. But why are you limiting your choice to one of two RINO’s?
There is a third option that you are completely ignoring...one that if Conservatives would unite behind instead of getting wrapped up in the drama and trying to find some 100% pure candidate...would trounce Obama.
Newt has his flaws, but he’s no RINO. That just ludicrous. He’s got a 90% lifetime ACU rating, higher than Santorum’s, which is in the mid-80s, and Paul’s, which is in the low-80s.
Romney is a liberal-leaning moderate, Paul is a libertarian. Santorum is a George W. Bush compassionate conservative, and Newt is a Reagan conservative. If you doubt that Newt is a Reagan conservative, just ask Nancy Reagan, Michael Reagan, Bud McFarlane, Art Laffer, Jeffrey Lord, Thomas Sowell, and a good number of other Reagan conservatives.
Those four who are running are it. Nobody’s getting in, and a brokered convention with some white knight riding in to save the day is pure fantasy. In the unlikely event someone does ride in to break a deadlocked convention, it is most probably going to be another worthless establishment moderate.