The problem is, for many of us at least, Rick Santorum is just about as bad an option as Romney. Santorum is more conservative and if I was forced to appoint one of them President I'd certainly take him over Mitt, but as a general election candidate? LOL, Rick would get destroyed in an epic landslide defeat that would take our House majority down with it. Romney will likely lose narrowly, Santorum would be utterly annihilated. The guy is just not disciplined enough to avoid the media baiting him over and over on things like condoms and porn. He can't avoid talking about those things because, in his heart, it is really what he most cares about. Santorum is just not a serious general election option and pretty much the only folks that don't understand this are the same block of voters that cast ballots for silly presidential candidates like Mike Huckabee and Pat Robertson.
That is the problem in a nutshell. For many, perhaps most, of us Newt supporters, Rick Santorum is simply not a credible alternative.
You pretty much boiled it down into a thimble. Santorum just does not have the brain power to know when to shut up as well as who to shut up to. It’s really that simple.
Newt on the other hand, not only knows how to smell an MSM trap, he causes them to become a victim OF thier own trap.
This is why Newt would smoke Obama like a cheap cigar.
IMO, Romney is to blame for all of this. Without his smearing of his number one rival, Newt Gingrich, I don't think the other candidates would have stooped to his level of dirty campaign tactics and we could have had a primary of ideas and solutions we deserved.
I trust and hope that Newt Gingrich will stay in all the way to the convention and get as many delegates as he can.
That simply isn't a rational argument. Santorum has an 88% rating from the American Conservative Union while Romney's record is to the left of Bill Clinton.
It is this sort of thinking that has allowed the left-wing of the Republican party to choose the nominee.
Rick would get destroyed in an epic landslide defeat that would take our House majority down with it.
That notion isn't supported by the polls. Santorum has consistently only behind Obama by a few more percentage points than Romney and polls have showed him ahead of Obama in swing states.
Santorum is just not a serious general election option and pretty much the only folks that don't understand this are the same block of voters that cast ballots for silly presidential candidates like Mike Huckabee and Pat Robertson.
Huckabee would have beaten Romney easily and would be doing far better against Obama than Romney is doing.
You're RINO side is showing. You either have a problem with Santorum's Christianity or with a candidate taking a strong stance on social issues.