Remind me again of Santorums primary wins vs those of Newt, then, and of how close he was to Romney (vs how close were Newt and Cain) in the states where Romney won (and Romney usually won with about 35% of the GOP vote)
and what was Santorums primary win count (and Newts and Cains) vs Romney before Santorum dropped out before PA
I was never a Santorum fan, thought he was too meek, but I recall for a few months there he was starting to look a bit like David the Shepherd boy vs Romney .. then the money ran out
No one bent on revisionist history can be reminded of anything....
The race was over after Mitt beat Newt in Florida. Through Florida, Newt had about four times the popular vote total of Santorum. I did write a hundred thousand word book that has a very long section tracking the entire GOP nomination process, a process I also wrote about daily as it was taking place. I know what I’m talking about here.
Santorum did move into second place post Florida, but the jig was up by then. In fact, SC was the last state with a good turn out. SC was the last primary where anyone ran against Obama.
Florida was a food fight and turn out was way down, and every other state was down compared to 2008 after that. Santorum racked up “states” with teeny little oddball caucus things...he never ever showed the ablity to mobilize large turn outs...because he CANT.....
You may equate 30 thousand folks in Iowa or 3 thousand, yes THREE THOUSAND,, in Nevada to 300 thousand in SC or a million in Florida, but sensible people do not. Santorm played the “finish second” game far better than Newt, but only Newt was ever a viable challenger, if even he was. Rick ran for governor of Iowa first, and then for 2016 next. He knew he was never a real threat and so did Mitt, which is why Mitt’s people funded Ricks’ attax on Newt.
Grow up.