Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum are far, far, far more conservative than Romney or Christie. It's not even close.
Puleeze, they were losers, and in Santorum's case, a fraud. Mr. "Courageous Conservative", after promising to not savage other candidates, was sitting there savaging and misrepresenting Newt's NASA/Moon base thing, while Rick's website was still hawking-- as its top issue-- his opposition to Porno. Santorum had no chance. No chance ever. The only choices that election were: Newt Gingrich (after Cain's bimbo fiasco) or Mitt Romney. Mittens, as pathetic as he is, was a stronger candidate than Rick Santorum or Michelle, who would have lost in a supreme landslide to Obama. Newt Gingrich-- if he had gone rogue and stayed rogue-- was the only alternative.
Levin, Beck, and the other idiots, chose to prop up a sure loser candidate, letting Matt Drudge and Team Romney butcher Newt with the lies on Bloody Thursday, and thus couldn't stop the nomination of a candidate who-- though he would have done better in the general than Ricky-- was doomed to fail because he was a Mormon Bishop and a pathological liar that was despised by 30 percent of his own base.