And if the GOP nominates him, he will be crushed by Obama like a paper cup. It'll be Reagan-Mondale bad.
Sorry. I truly am, because I despise Obama and all he stands for, and would love to see him defeated in November. But given the current crop of GOP hopefuls, this isn't going to happen.
If Santorum wins the nomination, he'll be destroyed by the MSM and Obama as the dude who wants to clamp a chastity belt over every vagina in the land. He's toast.
If Newt wins the nomination, he'll be destroyed by the MSM and Obama as the typical evil Republican in the Dick Cheney mold. He'd be toast, too, although the debates between Newt and Obama would be awesome.
If Romney wins the nomination, he'll be ridiculed by the MSM and Obama as the Guy Smiley salesman candidate, whose willing to say anything and pander to anyone in order to make a sale. And when the electorate gets to choose between a Democrat and a Democrat-Lite, they'll take the Democrat every time.
Obama is a happy guy right now. Thank you, GOP!
I agree, Santorum has no chance in a national election.
He’ll be obliterated.
The play book to destroy Santorum was written in 06, and it doesnt need changed.
He’ll be painted as a radical, by his own words and sound bites, just like he was in ‘06.
Romney is the “Safe” candidate, in that he looks the part, and will run a campaign of least offensiveness. Santorum is milk toast who wont even get out of hte gate. Gingrich is the guy who could obliterate Obama by making the election a truly ideological debate.
Romney might win if the GOP base doesn’t revolt and pull an 08 and stay home.. he won’t be exciting, certainly won’t govern from the right, etc etc, but he’ll play the traditional campain of offend the least possible and go tit for tat gotcha. He’ll likely win the general, because in that sort of campaign, he’s perceived as the least dangerous and a acceptable replacement for the buffoon in teh white house now, and at the end of the day that’s all a candidate needs to be, Obama cannot win any election where the opponent is not perceived as unacceptable.
Gingrich would take it to Obama ideologically and whipe the floor with Obama. He’d win by the largest margin because he can handle the press handily and keep the topic on focus and bury the empty suit with facts, figures, ideas, etc etc.
Santorum, sorry, he’s milk toast. He’s a social conservative who cannot articulate his stands well, and provides sound bite after sound bit that will be used against him just like in 06 and make him look completely unacceptable. He wasn’t able to counter or handle this in 06, and he’s not going to do any better in 12. He’s on his best day a VP candidate, for him to top the ticket its absolutely going to be a re-election of Obama.
Of the 3 I like Gingrich, I hate Romney, and Santroum has a whole plethora of issues. All of them are better than Obama, but I have ZERO confidence Santorum can win a General, and I don’t like Romney either, but his chances of winning a general are better than Santorums.
I will vote for the nominee whoever it is, but I know, that Santorum cannot win a general election, it just wont happen. Obama is not liked, but Santorum is far too easily turned into a completely unacceptable radical by sound bites he himself created almost daily.