“Obvious questions” tag-teamed from the biggest earmarker in Congress (that is Ron Paul, btw) and from Willard the Massachusetts liberal who ran to the left of the late Ted Kennedy and was co-architect together of the largest spending bill of all (that is RomneyCare/ObamaCare).
And then there was that audience bought and paid for by Willard and the Mormons with the libs at CNN calling the shots...
All in all, Rick the Conservative Catholic did fine.
Will see if the polls do hold up for Rick...that is in doubt.
It really was that bad. It was a train wreck, only missing a YouTube moment to seal his fate. He can't afford another debate problem which is why he and Romney had both bailed out on the pre-Super Tuesday match.
Santorum was clearly nervous, stumbling for words, rambling, offered tortured rationalizing ... it was embarrassing. He wasn't prepared for the obvious and this was only his first taste of the spotlight.
With good reason Santorum and Romney cut and run from the debate ahead of Super Tuesday. The stakes are high and both men lack confidence. They are playing defense.
Despite an awful performance, Santorum is likely to save himself with a win in Michigan. Both Romney and Santorum are trying to suck the oxygen out of Newt's campaign ahead of Super Tuesday. Maybe it'll work--if it does, it's to the detriment of us all.
Outside social issues, Rick's hardly conservative. Was he conservative introducing and voting for over a half-billion to Amtrak's $900 million budget? Was he conservative voting to confirm Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit knowing she'd be a likely Dem pick for the Supreme Court and was, in fact, Obama's first choice? Is his "home schooling" in Virginia by siphoning off $72,000 from a PA local school district a conservative thing to do? These are things that helped sink him in PA and don't begin to touch the problems of his record.