This proves why he stayed in the race: To assure Santorum’s defeat.
Rick Santorum lined himself up with the Fries backer who was a Romney backer. Santos could not even carry his own state. He dropped out. Newt did not make him do that. Santos piled on negative ads in Florida against the speaker. He’s not Mr. Whistle with his big government ideas. Rick Santorum owns this mess, he was the problem. We never had a shot one on one to Romney. We never had a shot one on one to the media. He was never going to get the women vote. He was too far ultra right with his views. You didn’t get Huckabee in nor Santorum 2/ for 2. Bush got in because he was portrayed as a conservative. McCain, well he did it to himself. Romney, was a liberal and the base said hell no. Next time, we’ll probably lose. Personally, I think part of the base is done with the republicans just for putting Romney up.