Obviously Santorum and Romney made a deal. Why else would he continue to waste the money and time. Especially with a daughter still in the hospital.
Even aside from that, I think there’s a deal.
If you’re going into nomination process with the intent of just increasing your name recognition, and such, which is all that you do if you have a negligible chance of winning the nomination, you try and go out on a high, like winning Iowa. It increases your chance of an electoral win wherever it is you do plan on running.
To win Iowa and then keep going and use up the gains from Iowa doesn’t make much sense, unless there is another reason afoot or that Santorum is egotistical enough to think that an Iowan win makes it conceivable that he’ll also get the presidency.
Santorum is doing for Romney what Huckabee did for McCain.
it is a little ironic, but not at all funny.
Using a candidate’s disabled daughter to get him to drop out so your candidate can get his votes? Low.
I don’t think Santorum’s in it for Romney. He hit him pretty hard on romneycare and is giving a speech on it again today.
It may be obvious to you, but not to me.
58 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:38:25 PM by tsowellfan: “That being said, I also know that Santorum does have legit supporters but not all that claim to support him are really wishing that he be the nominee. Romney supporters don’t just shut up. They just approach it from another angle :)”
I won't join Yaelle in calling you “insane” (post 68) because I don't dispute the reality of deception in politics, but I'm going to say I was anti-Romney **LONG** before I was a supporter of Santorum, and I thank Free Republic for waking me up to the horrible nature of Romney's debate performance in the governor's race in which he insisted he was pro-choice, his mother was pro-choice, and he's always been pro-choice.
I'm a reluctant supporter of Santorum. I am a strong opponent of Romney.
I can live with voting for Gingrich. I really, really hope the Republican Party doesn't put me in a position of having to decide whether to vote for Romney or Obama.
38 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:17:47 PM by ansel12: “Rush told us today that most Santorum voters, support Romney as their second choice.”
I'd like to see Rush Limbaugh's research, especially since his brother is endorsing Santorum. I realize he has access to data that may not be public knowledge.
However, the polls that are so far public don’t seem to bear this out. CharlesWayneCT has some interesting data showing that Santorum voters are split on their second choice about evenly between Romney and Gingrich.
Poll and commentary here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2840285/posts?page=58#58