Santorum Delivers a GOP Stunner [Shoe-String Budget: Clean Sweep: Hat-Trick: Wins MN; MO, and CO!]

Wall St. J ^ | February 07, 2012 | NEIL KING JR. And DANNY YADRON

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

This is wonderful. Back in 2008, we would have been thrilled if Romney could be our anti-McStain. Now we have a chance for someone more conservative than Romney. Haha!

I am glad that Newt had his time in the sun. He comes up with great ideas sometimes and deserves respect.

As for Santorum, people [who matter] have nothing but good things to say about him so far as I know.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Exactly, yet another shot across the RNC Establishment’s bow.

[Haiku Guy]

Mr. Romney had carried Minnesota in 2008 but placed third there on Tuesday. With 85% of precincts in, Mr. Santorum had 45% of the vote, while Mr. Paul had 27%. Mr. Romney had 17% of the vote and Mr. Gingrich claimed 11%.

Time for Romney to drop out of the race and endorse Ron Paul so there can be a united effort to defeat Santorum...

Just trying to be consistent, here...

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“The birth control issue was beyond stupid by 0.”

That also makes clear how much better it would be to have a CONSERVATIVE candidate other than Romney.

[left that other site]

Oh My.....

Looks like a Tebow Moment! :-)

LOL

[Hattie]

The conservatives are running against Romney instead of Obama. We will get our just desserts in November.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

would like to do away with contraceptives

You're a fake.

[livius]

I don’t like Santorum at all; he is all big government, establishment GOP and has a rather disagreeable Jimmy Carter type personality, without the smile.

However, I’m really glad that Romney got knocked back, even though two of caucuses were not binding and Gingrich wasn’t even in one of them.

Maybe the GOP will have to rethink the inevitability of Romney, who is a truly odious person and should be nowhere near the Presidency. We’ve already had a few years of one odious person and we don’t need another.

If the GOP hadn’t been pushing Romney from the start, he would never have gotten as far as he has, because he really has nothing to offer.

[CH3CN]

Try reading it at 3:16 and it will make sense.

[Antoninus]

Nominating a conservative and losing would make this whole process a waste of time.

Incorrect. Nominating a liberal Republican (Romney) and winning is actually the worst possible outcome. Nominating a liberal Republican and losing is second worse.

Nominating a conservative and losing is the second best outcome. At least our message will get put out there by someone who actually believes it and we have a chance to educate the voters nationwide, thus building the framework for future victories.

[Jim Noble]

Clear "electable" alternative to Romney.

Please explain to me how Santorum can defeat Obama. It's not 1950 anymore (unfortunately). The halftime show at the Super Bowl tells you all you need to know about where the average voting boob is at.

Really - I can't accept Mitt, it is unlikely that Newt can make it in the long haul, and I just cannot see a Rick Santorum path to victory.

I'm prepared to believe, if you can convince me.

[ngat]

How about this ticket, Bigbob:

Santorum - pres - appoints judiciary
Gingrich - vp - Senator would love Gingrich presiding there
Romney - car czar - only czar position not eliminated and Romney applies all the knowledge he gained at Bain Capital of how to save failing companies to the auto industry.

[PapaBear3625]

I sure like what I’ve heard from Santorum lately. For sure he would be a contrast against Obama, not just “Obama-lite”.

I would be happy if Rick and Newt came to an agreement that they would ally against Mitt, with whichever had the lower delegate count at the convention tossing his delegates to the higher candidate in exchange for becoming the VP on the ticket.

[COBOL2Java]

Mitt Romney and the GOP Establishment were not amused by this turn of events...

[Lazamataz]

How many times, and how many ways, do we need to tell Karl Rove to screw off?

[a real Sheila]

My theory is that the American public is SICK TO DEATH of the media and party elites deciding who our candidate will be and forcing him upon us and aren’t going to take it anymore!

I’m STILL scratching my head over how we ended up with John McCain in 2008!!!

[ASA Vet]

When and under what circumstances did Aldo Santorum naturalize?

[Servant of the Cross]

ABR

Gingrich-Santorum or Santorum-Gingrich.

[xzins]

If Romney can't win Colorado with it's significant Mormon population, then he ain't gonna win in the Bible Belt or the corn belt.

You are right. I had overlooked that.

It actually has a huge border with Utah, doesn't it?

Wow! Romney is absolutely weak in his own back yard. Amazing

[Rational Thought]

Santorum articulates a Conservative ideology and does have credibility.

The path to victory in a general election isn't really that complicated. The seldom publicized truth (and this according to polls) is that most of the Country consider themselves Conservative. Rather than worrying about the Independents, a Republican nominee should focus on turning out their own base. This strategy is the key to success.

Romney doesn't excite the base. Sorry to say, Gingrich doesn't appear to excite enough of the base either. While all three candidates can draw the anti-Obama vote to different degrees (the lesser of two evils argument), it appears that Santorum, through his message, also is conveying that he is a true Conservative representative, giving Conservatives something to vote for, not just an alternative vote to Obama.

To those of us who believe in the ideology, last night was a great night and might be the real beginning of something very good.

Santorum’s biggest draw back has been the perception that he isn't electable. Last night likely changed that.