As far as Santorum goes, I find that to be a rather accurate description of him. The Left is absolutely going out of their way to get Santorum nominated. There is a strong push for them to crossover on Super Tuesday to stop Romney and Gingrich. (And they certainly won't vote for Santo in the General.)
“The Left is absolutely going out of their way to get Santorum nominated. There is a strong push for them to crossover on Super Tuesday to stop Romney and Gingrich. (And they certainly won’t vote for Santo in the General.)”
Absolutely, in some states, Santorum is calling even the lefties himself. While our last hope may wind up being a brokered convention, Gingrich (while behind Romney) is winning against Santorum and Paul both in delegates, AND in popular vote.
Although the numbers in the beauty contest states may ultimately turn out to equal delegates, we also have to think about what’s going to happen once we get into the general. Santorum won’t cut it, and people can argue till their blue in the face, but the reality is, that’s he’s unlikely to make it very much further. If he doesn’t shore up real delegate in several states tomorrow (He’s not on the ballot in Virginia, and has real issues in Ohio), then this funding is going to drop out from under him. The fact is, that the excuse for not properly working out the ballot issues in BOTH Virginia AND Ohio, looks (and is) really, really bad. The excuse (”I was polling at 2% and didn’t have much of a chance back then”) is going to have the opposite effect. It doesn’t sound like an excuse, but even more of a reason to not vote for someone who couldn’t get their act together. I watched the Wallace interview, and couldn’t help thinking (when he gave that lame excuse), “He just handed a commercial to Romney, great.” I really hope he’s not working for Romney, but I really also think he must be (or have been), it’s the only thing that makes sense to do so much, so wrong, so often.
I thought you’d run the Leftists out of the Souf’
"The Left is absolutely going out of their way to get Santorum nominated."
I agree with that. When Romney couldn't take SC the Left decided that the ever cooperative Santorium was a better bet than sticking with the Vichy Republican pick of Romney. The way the Left sees it, backing Santorium is a win for them any way it goes. Either it leads to Santorium as the Republican nominee which they like because they know he can't lead Conservative Republicans and can't stand up to the Fascist democrat party thugs, or to the Vichy Republican Romney as the nominee with Santorium as VP.
That way they know they even have control of the tie breaking vote in the Senate if things get more precarious for them in the Senate. Most importantly, it splits the Conservative vote and keeps Newt from clearly beating Romney and the Left is deathly afraid of having to run against Newt or worse yet, Newt being President.