Do you believe the party wants the base left with the notion that Mitt will pick Rick as his VP? As this OpEd suggests to the reader?
It’s not an official, single OpEd...rather a series of articles this week by various WSJ people that write for the opinion pages.
They also had a very loooooooong guest piece by James Tarantino on how the social issues COULD work for the GOP, or at the very least, not hurt them. It was based on Santorum’s rise and the felt need for the writer to weigh in on some people’s concerns about that.
But to your question, you couldn’t miss how they reached out to Santorum and people planning to vote for him.
Glaringly, instead of trying to help Mitt by dissing Santorum, their tactics were to treat Santorum with kid gloves.
I think they realize Mitt is in bad trouble and they have to be careful how to play this.
Therefore, saying all that to say, one could not help but conclude that the WSJ Romney E is wide open to a Santorum candidacy whether the top spot or the VP.