[dt57]

Rick Santorum will never be president for a whole host of reasons. I am not a hater, and I will vote for the man if I have to. Listen, Rick has yet to explain away his 18 point loss in his last Senate re-election bid. Saying it was a bad year for republicans is not enough. Many incumbents won that year, and no setting senator took a loss like he did. There were valid reasons that he would lose and badly, but not that badly. Could it be that the voters were just tired of him? I am. Like I said I am no hater, I just would really like to win. I am not going to vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances. And I will vote for Mr. Santorum if pressed, but the man that can win and articulate our message is Newt Gingrich.

[Lazlo in PA]

The only reason Ricks loss in '06 matters is because of electability issues. Those went out the door when Rick started wining states and beating Milt like a drum in CO. He is also wining swing states that is where the election will be won or lost. Tell me where Newt has shown he is even capable of really challenging Milt. He won SC, that is it. His campaign is a shambles and he is consistently failing in all the state by state polling for upcoming contests.

You ARE a Rick hater. I don't have to go any further than peruse your brief 12 day posting history to see a trend for bashing Rick at every turn. I am curious if you are working for Newts campaign? I find a lot of election year sign ons to be campaign operatives here to stir up trouble by bashing opponants with irrelevant issues such as the '06 loss.

[jwalsh07]

Look you should be concerned that Santorum lost by 18. No problem there. But you should also try to understand why. Number 1, a 106% of Philadelphia voters voted that year. Thats right, more votes than registered voters. Second, it was a piss poor year for republicans everywhere. Third, Pennsylvania had been trending left for some time. Bush lost there twice and a Republican POTUS had not won in Pa since 1988. So Santorum was running and winning in a left leaning state for years. Nobody seems to appreciate tha fact.

But most importantly Santorum was running against the son perhaps the most beloved politician in Pa history, Bob Casey a pro life, pro gun democrat. He didn’t have a prayer of coming close that year.

[napscoordinator]

Many incumbents won that year, and no setting senator took a loss like he did.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/senate/

That is totally 100 percent incorrect. Every Republican Senator lost that year except for Coker in TN and it was only by 3 points. Please glance at this listing before you unfairly attack a moral principled Christian with character.