[hinckley buzzard]

You are detecting the effect of intense ego involvement on critical judgment. The disgruntled santorum hangers-on and a few others to be sure, were so invested in their own personal wonderfulness as Santorum boosters, that they reject a whole wide range of information which doesn't fit their pinpoint narrow world view.

A side effect of this massive rejection is that otherwise obvious and objective differences are ignored or denied. This is a well-known phenomenon in the social psychology of attitude structure, and familiar to students of the history of political ideologies, religious movements, and related "causes.".

Zealots of all kinds, regardless of content, do the same thing--"you have to be exactly what I want you to be or you are totally unacceptable and therefore lumped into an undifferentiated mass." This is illustrated as, sooner or later, extreme movements always splinter over sometimes tiny insignificant differences.

Not surprisingly, that characterizes the conservative movement's efforts in the recent primary campaign.

[DoughtyOne]

I was a Santorum supporter, but I am not inclined to not vote for another candidate if they will be good for the nation.

That post number 11 on this thread looms large. A Romney term in office would not be good for this nation.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2871677/posts?page=11#11