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Of course Santorum will support Romney. Whatever move he needs to make to secure his political ambitions and remain within the Washington loop. We knew that when he refused to drop out when Newt had the ball...in fact many of us knew he was simply the Gop's and medias alternative to Newt...they played the SAntorum hand and it was a win for them and a win For SAntorum....

RE: "We knew that when he refused to drop out when Newt had the ball..."

Well, I didn't. I mean, I thought he had some principles, but the Santorum supporters I know, very hardcore, are really angry with him for quitting... and when they tell me about their anger... I try to be all I'm so sorry, and then remind them gently about when he said about pledging his life his fortune and his sacred honor... and a little later in the conversation, how he said one of the reasons he said he got out was 'he didn't like the amount of debt he was collecting'...

There was actually an article on Newsmax yesterday, with one of the evangelical leaders, a Santorum supporter, saying they should have backed Newt.

So there is a little light there...

SANTORUM - Mission Accomplished.

It was Newt who said he was pledging his life, his fortune and his sacred honor...maybe Santorum tried to copy that later, since people were really impressed when Newt said it, but because it was false in the case of Santorum, I guess it just didn’t have the same ring.

But I think the thing that this highlights is that social conservatives, which was the group Santorum was successful in winning, are not necessarily political or fiscal conservatives. They don’t seem to realize that these things are all of a piece, and if you give your economic and political life to the government, your social conservativism has also been surrendered into government hands.

There was actually an article on Newsmax yesterday, with one of the evangelical leaders, a Santorum supporter, saying they should have backed Newt.

Ugh. Depressing that they're just realizing this now. I believe the evangelical endorsements are the only reason Santorum won anything in this primary. Despite 7 months of campaigning in Iowa, his polls were flatlining until the last weekend before voting when he got the evangelical endorsement. I know in Florida the evangelicals in Texas had a real debate and Newt was a strong second choice. If they had backed Newt, it would have been all over for Romney. He would've got his liberal blue states and Mormon states and nothing else.