Just the last week or so, since I have been trying to vet Santorum a little more, people who were looking at him, not the already-committed, but thoughtful people, are starting to like Newt. they see him in the news, as if he were already a player, engaging the White House. Most of these people who are turning away from Santorum because, frankly, he scares them, and like one Freeper said, Santorum doesn't seem to understand when you open the door of govt to religion, it can swing both ways. And mostly because they are impressed by Newt.
Maybe it's time to start turning our attention away from the hardcore and trying to reason with Santorum supporters, and talk to the nonrepublicans, mod republicans, and others, because according to the recent polls, people are not happy with Obama.
I think any attempt to pull from Santorum now is ill-fated. Before tonight, he was already climbing in the polls and Romney was diving. He will probably pass Romney again shortly. Kansas, Alabama, and Mississippi in succession are are to top - for the moment. Your idea might have worked if Newt could have climbed out of the doldrums, but he has not been able to do so. His message seems to be attracting too small a base this time.
Yes, the hardcore are lost causes. This primary has been the worst of the worst and all the blames goes to Romney.
I don’t believe to a minute that any of the other candidates would have stooped to his level.
We deserved positive and solution based campaigns from every single one of our candidates and I truly believe, that without Romney, we had a good opportunity of getting precisely that.