Iowa was Santorum’s best hope, and he was not quite able to pull it off. Nice showing, though.
If Rick could not win Iowa, where he has lived for two years and met every voter, where is he going to win? He won’t have two years to spend in each state. Iowa is his high water mark.
Even Huckabee actually defeated Romney in Iowa, and quite handily, too. Santorum underperformed Huckabee while relying almost exclusively on Huckabee voters, endorsements, and staff. Where else will he do better, especially now that he’ll have the bullseye on his back?
You are quite correct.
Santorum can’t spend months in the other 56 states, and now will have to project a persona that won’t be based on visiting coffee shops and state fairs. That means offensive postures at debates, and attack ads.
He hasn’t before. Romney-crats will most assuredly do so to him.
“Iowa was Santorum’s best hope, and he was not quite able to pull it off. Nice showing, though.”
Believe me, Santorum is far more appealing than Plastic Mitt to most of us SC voters. With Perry dropping out, he should pick up the majority of his voters. I wish Bachmann would cease cluttering the field as well. We’ll see how the publicity goes, but a lot of people seem to actually be paying attention this election cycle.
What I’d love is for some nice dirt to come out on Romney...that would turn the tide pretty quick I think.
While some feel Santorum has electability issues versus 0, I’m not in that camp. He’s young enough to be appealing, and on the issues he’ll kill 0. In the debates he should do fine as well.
I think I may have to get involved in some last minute campaigning for Santorum.
Does Santorum have an uphill battle? Absolutely. Will Mitt and the Karl Rove wing of the Republican party put their bullseye towards him? Yup. But the conservative vote was so split up that what Santorum pulled off was nothing short of amazing. The RINOS were unified by Mittens. Now we need to get behind Santorum.
What Karl Rove et al need to understand is that Romney is NOT electable. Whether the Republican machine likes it or not, they need the worker bees of the conservative base. We've let them put out Dole, GWB, and McCain. It's our turn to put somebody out there.