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Santorum and the media that have jumped on his bandwagon seems to forget that he WAS CRUSHED in SC and Florida. He campaigned in both states. Newt Gingrich beat Romney by 12 percentage points in SC, inspite of Romney spending millions in negative campaign ads against him. No one ran ads against Santorum and he was still crushed. Same thing in Florida. Santorum is a Northerner. A big spending Northerner who does not play well in the South. Last night was an impressive win for him, but it was not in the South. Newt Gingrich was not on the ballot in Missouri, if he had been I suspect he would have finished well. The only way Santorum could possibly carry a Southern state would be for Newt Gingrich to get out and endorse him. Southerners would vote for him them. They wouldn’t be too enthusiastic about it, but he’s 1000 times better than Romney, who is still despised by the average republican voter, especially in the South. Gingrich or Santorum can beat Obama. Willard the liberal can not. Let’s see how Faux News and Karl Rove spin last night’s crushing defeat for their favorite liberal.

Santorum was deprived of any momentum out of Iowa because of the muddle with the votes in Iowa and intervening expected NH win for Mitt. Newt also enjoyed the benefit of a backlash against the lib media because they brought out his Ex in the week prior, and he punted it back in their faces in the debates. Before last night I think you also had the same backlash effect because of the Catholic healthcare issue with Obama and the court decision on homosexual marriage that gave Santorum the bump yesterday. Santorum may be regional, but so is Newt. I would say Santorum has an edge many don't see, he's very good at the retail level. Some pundits say the pause before super Tuesday will suck Santorum’s momentum. I think it will be the opposite because it will give him time to do retail. He'll be stronger because of the pause.