Is Rick Santorum trying to save the GOP from Sarah Palin?

It says more about the character of those who oppose her than about Sarah Palin’s character...

Rick who?

Sanitarium?

Is not this the guy who could not get reelected in Pa?? YUP!

We don’t need no stinkin RINOs like Romney.

The Vichy Republican who endorsed Specter over Toomey?

- JP

Desperation from the Palin hating wing of the Republican Party.

If anything, he’s running for VP.

Was not aware that Santorum was a part of Operation Leper.
His actions against the Palin children during Election2008 to throw it for Romney are reprehensible.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up 8 pts. days prior to September 18th.
Obama was losing until the DNC played their October surprise on the economy
and the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

The Washington insiders need to be stopped and the 535 sociopaths on Capitol Hill need to be dis-elected, post haste.

Democrat *and* Republican.

All of them.

The U.S. Congress is totally out of control.

If anything, he’s running for VP.

Bingo!

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician. Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

I won't

This article is trying to create a wedge between Palin and Santorum. Don’t fall for it. Palin will be a great candidate, I fully support her, and she is my first pick for President in 2012 but let’s not create a candidate to worship. That is not what American needs. We can see the disastrous results of that kind of behavior right now.

This is a really over analyzing piece. Rick came out against McCain because he despised how McCain was the chief blocker of the conservative agenda in the Senate. I think many people held their nose in support of Mitt. When I heard Rick later in the primary process he was more against McCain than actually supporting someone else.

Over analyzing continues as if the guy wants to run, we can't automatically assume it is to block Palin. It is also stupid to suggest that a conservative Christian would run to take conservative Christian voters away from Palin so a non Christian can win the nomination.

If the guy wants to run let him. We are the side of ideas and freedom.

Santorum is probably tilting at windmills – he’s just not electable . . .

As much as I like Rick, I have to agree. He even got thumped here in SW Pennsylvania, his home turf, in favor of the empty suit Bob Casey, Jr. Granted, most of the electorate thought they were voting for Bob Casey, Sr. instead of Barack Obama, Jr.

Santorum I think your good friend Arlen needs you more than Sarah does.

Seems to me like the author of this piece is really stretching it and trying to create problems between Santorum and Palin that don’t exist.

Santorum is not even in the same league as Sarah Palin. Palin is NFL caliber and Santorum is still playing high school football.

I like Rick Santorum.I hope the premise that he would help a friend(Rommey) who is far from being a conservative against a true conservative like Sarah Palinis wrong.
This is the sort of thing that keeps the Republican Party losing elections.
I would vote for Santorum in a second
I would vote for Palin in a second
I would never waste a vote on Rommey

I think both you guys nailed it. This is an over-analysis of matters.

What Santorum said about Bristol in no way reflects the way the author describes it.

I feel this is an attempt to create wedges among Republicans in an effort to divide and conquer.

Just another loser trying to rain on the only viable parade out there right now.