The same Santorum that came out of no where and beat Mitt in Iowa?
I think there is a hole in your theory.
Santorum didn’t do anything.. all he didn’t do or say anything.... all he did was manage to be the last man standing... that’s it.. that’s all he’ll ever be.
He has no support based on anything meanigful, other than he’s not romney and he’s not newt, that’s it.
All he’s doing is splitting the non romney vote, and keeping Romney on top via creating a situation where 30-40% will win you the plurality. By design or by coincidence it doesn’t matter.
Santorum has no chance of winning, and will fade, the only question is will it be soon enough to prevent romney from winding up the nominee or not.
Santorum is playing spoiler, nothing more.