Santorum was adept at defining the gulf between Main Street and Wall Street and understanding the difference between free trade as a policy tool and a Kool-Aid drinking ideology which made no distinction between China and those generally hostile to U.S. interests and Japan and other loyal U.S. allies.
Newt did himself no favors with his gratuitous attacks on other conservative candidates such as the special election in New York. There are valid reasons why he never became a TEA Party favorite. There were more than a few of us who could see that the key difference between him and Mitt Romney was that Romney had a smaller ego.
Gingrich won the freerepublic endorsement, not Santorum.
As big an ego as Gingrich has, it can’t equal the ego of the man who claimed to have marched with MLK, and thinks that he is going to become a God.