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His candidacy all but dismissed just days ago, Rick Santorum won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday, an unexpected trifecta that raised fresh questions about Mitt Romney’s ability to corral conservative support.
One thing has been pretty consistent: When handed any other front runner: Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich or Santorum -- the GOP's find they like them even less than they like Romney.
As far as the conservative vote goes, it won't really matter who wins. Any one of the four candidate will get the conservative vote when given the choice between them and Obama.
The real question is which of the candidates can win Independents and disaffected Democrats. We've known the answer to that for ages now: Paul and Romney are the only ones who will can win that segment of the vote. Gingrich is to flawed and Santorum is too conservative.
It's Arizona and Michigan next. Arizona has social conservatives but they are Mormons. Michigan is kind of home to Romney. With those two wins, he will be back on top.
ha ha ha don't rule out sabotage. In some states democrats can vote in republican primaries.
They can't even get Republicans to turn out to vote in these contests. Turnout has been dismal. The evangies will vote as we saw last night, but mainstream Reps are just not excited about Mitt enough to take the time.
The best candidate in the running already dropped out because the GOP is obsessed with the idea of sending an uber-conservative to the general election. That was Huntsman and he was too moderate for their tastes.
I'm beginning to think that it's just best if Santorum wins. The GOP needs to learn their lesson: Polar extremes do not win elections. You have to be moderate enough to win the Independent vote. Santorum is the most conservative candidate remaining. If he wins the nomination, he will get massacred in the general election. He might carry five or six states if he is very lucky. The GOP will have to take step back and think. Do they really want to get embarrassed every four years or are they willing to rethink a few things. Neo-Conservatism is not going to win elections. Status quo stubborn Republican idealism isn't going to win either. They marginalize Romney to their peril and ignoring Paul was an even worse idea.
I think that would set the stage for Huntsman or somebody a lot like him in 2016. I think Huntsman would need to incorporate more of Ron Paul flavor concepts, but on the whole, he's as solid a candidate as you're going to find to win in the general election. The trick is getting a moderate through the currently super-stupid primary process.
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don't rule out sabotage. In some states democrats can vote in republican primaries.
