No matter what he may or may not be, he is an Establishment guy who was groomed by Karl Rove to be Bill Frist’s successor. I think you have not followed politics long enough. Economically, he is no conservative. He never was one and has no interest being one either. Newt is far better than Santorum.
... GOP Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania--a hard-edged conservative,(emphasis mine) whom Rove has been grooming to succeed Sen. Bill Frist as majority leader--broke the rule last week. In an all-too-freewheeling interview with the AP, Santorum said he considered gay sex immoral--though not as heinous as "man on child" or "man on dog" sex. If the Supreme Court creates a zone of privacy to protect gay sex, he said, the legal precedent is tantamount to protecting "bigamy, polygamy and incest."
Perhaps. Either is better than Romney.