Oh
Nice respecful way to answer an honest questioner
I was not trytng to revise history, only to revisit it and remember a not insignificant Santorum bloc of primary victories (3 in one day as I recall)
But not going to go back and discuss it with a sarcastic disrespectful poster
Newt demonstrated himself as a “viable challenger” by his track record in the GOP primaries, and Romney stamped himself as a loser too by his weak wins in his own GOP primaries. Santorum did not cause the annointed Mitt to lose. Mitt’s weak demeanor and his minority religious beliefs stunk on ice even to over half of his party and a nation desperate to get rid of Obama, who stayed home rather than vote for Mitt.
This is all over your head. You count each primary as the same, when clearly there are those that are not. Primaries that have tiny populations, are too late in the process, or have weird rules are the only kinds Santorum won. He never won a major primary with a large population.
Yes, he played that numbers game very wisely, and it fooled you and some others...but he was never viable for anything other than second place.....
Your hatred of Newt blinds you to the fact that he was the only candidate who ran a campaign that had a chance of beating Obama.....at two different times during the campaign. One was early in Iowa, and then he was mercilessly attacked by all six others....and the other was the entire SC week and the first day in Florida. When he did that, he was crushing everyone else.
So the point is not newt...the point is how to win, and Santorum never did, never will, and never can carry that water.