[petercooper]

Little Ricky the Preacher is a joke, and should have dropped out after SC. The strongest candidate- Newt, would be sailing to the nomination. Obama will now easily destroy Mr. Mormon Romneycare quite easily.

[TexasRedeye]

...it is his own fault. ..Santorum's rambling, off topic speeches, and inability to focus (along with a lack of ground organization) shows, unfortunately, he is just not ready for prime time this go 'round.

[gitmogrunt]

Santorum and Romney are absolutely not concise speakers, nor are their records conservative inspite of their “severe” rhetoric.

[fortheDeclaration]

Huckabee redux.

Newt was always the conservative threat to Romney.

But wave the red flag of abortion to single issue social conservatives and they fall for it everytime.

[throwback]

That may be, but Romney will most likely lose the general. He makes endless “rich man” gaffes and is hopelessly stiff and uninspiring on the stump. Money has enabled him to pummel his opponents without much response, and he seems to have most of the Republican establishment pulling for him. Despite his advantages, he barely scrapes by, though. So hoorah for Romney, yeah, whatever.

[AppyPappy]

I think they mean the media talked him out of the nomination. The media decides what the sheeple are allowed to hear.

[KeyLargo]

Santorum Regrets Saying JFK Speech Almost Made Him ‘Want to Throw Up’

Audio:

http://conservativebyte.com/2012/02/santorum-regrets-saying-jfk-speech-almost-made-him-want-to-throw-up/

[Toespi]

Very profound analogy. Santorum is elementary in his speaking and debating skills. He thinks if he keeps on talking, something will stick, instead he gets in trouble. Obama would cream him.

[Pfesser]

Santorum’s robo calls to democrats hurt him. It likely caused more Republicans to vote for Romney. It was politically stupid since the democrats were already doing these calls for him.

[MSF BU]

Santorum needs to review the campaign style and speaches of RR. You can’t get the social conservative stuff done if you’re not elected. Then again, if Romney is elected we’ll never see the social conservative stuff done. How is Santorum polling against Romney in WV anyway?

[nhwingut]

I don’t think it’s over yet. But Santorum definitely needs a better filter. He comes off as way too sanctimonious. And does not know when to zip it.

He needs to win Ohio or it’s probably over.

[wardaddy]

You (a few) people are ridiculous.

Michigan is a fairly liberal state.

What do you expect.

....look around...Union crackers and Birkie folks galore..whites are more liberal than average.

51% voted for Obama

nationwide it was 55%

and in the Cotton States it was near 90%

it's Santorum’s social conservatism that has got him this far..not being a moderate like some here really want for electability

but..it's got to be he or Newt at some point...no question and right now he has more velocity than Newt

but maybe after Super Tuesday they can figure it out

I have no question Rick woulda beat Mitt even in Michigan had Newt not been there

but not sure if Newt would have without Rick

and I am a Newt supporter first but i will take Rick in a yankee second over Mitt

that is the objective for now

it amazes me how we have freepers who parrot the same "please no culture war" bullshite the GOPE and media ape for one another

LET ME TELL ALL YOU JACKASSES SOMETHING..WITHOUT SOCIAL CONSERVATISM THERE IS NONE...YOU ARE A DAMN LIBERAL, DON'T TRY TO KID YERSELF!! DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PART OF THE COUNTRY YOU ARE IN. THIS POLITICAL WAR IS FOR THE SOUL, NOT THE DAMNED CHECKBOOK...YOU QUISLINGS..SPIT

[mikey_hates_everything]

Obama will win and the Republicans won’t even have a fighter leading in to the loss. That’s the least that I had hoped for. Romney is just soggy cereal, melted ice cream, flat soda.

[TShaunK]

Rick S. is a good guy but he is a Sharon Angle redux.
Sharon Angle got you 6 more years of Harry reid.
Santorum will get you 4 more years of Obama.
I don’t give a F what Rush says. Rush’s operation chaos got us Obama.

Romney may not be the perfect conservative but he is a hell of a lot more conservative than McCain is.
Sooner you suck it up and get behind him the better off we are.

[Waryone]

There seems to be a whole group of people swallowing what the GOP-E is dishing out. Santorum is Santorum. If people decided not to vote for him, it had more to do with Mitten’s massive spending to trash his name than it had to do with anything Santorum said.

I was down here in Florida. I saw what Obama-white did to Newt. It is a wonder that Santorum was so close. He stood up to all of Mitt’s attacks and lost by a small margin. That is way better than Newt fared. Plus Santorum came away with delegates.

So while the GOP-E and other liberal-tarian types might wish Santorum would be hurt by his social conservative ways, the opposite seems to be true. In his home state, all of Mitt’s money and all of Mitt’s bots could only make a small scratch in Santorum’s support.

Can Mitt spend like this in every other state? Will Mitt’s tactic be effective in the South? If Santorum’s people start concentrating on showing Mitt’s soft social liberal underbelly, no. He’ll be run out of the South. They don’t cotton to Massachusetts moderates down here.

Some people can keep imagining the best thing is for social issues to disappear from the face of the earth. They won’t. Keep swallowing the dem and GOP-E spin.