Perry or Gingrich couldn’t overtake Santorum. That’s their fault if they could not defeat Santorum in La, Ms, Al, Mo, Ok, Neb, Colo, Iowa, North Dakota.
Sure, Santorum was a team player doing it for Romney.
Did you even watch the debate? Bachmann lied about Perry with her big mouth and she never did produce that 'lady in the audience' that night - and least her state understood the political game that was going on so she gave up her post.
Then romney stepped in to finish the job with his lies when Perry was confronting him with truth. So 'whatever conservative' conned their following enough, they turned their votes over to Romney when they stepped down. All according to script - all he/Rove needed was a hungry political and one known for taking it for the team. Voters lived in hope for their flavor of the week candidate and too clueless to watch 'the play' of dirty politicians doing what they do.