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.
Newt was the only candidate with a chance against the Obama machine, but he was back stabbed by the likes of ann coulter et al. Very similar to what is happening to Cruz right now. Et tu brute.
so now I “hate Newt”
geez. He was an election loser. Factually.
back in 2012 you were probably clamoring for Santorum - who was winning primaries - to drop out
then Newt would win those tiny insignificant primaries and roar like a lion into the big ones and maybe become...
Romneys VP
As if the Mormons would have let a moral quagmire like Newt Gingrich onto their squeaky clean mild mannered hero’s ticket