Here’s Rush’ guess, and he admits it’s just a “wild guess.”:
“RUSH: As to why Santorum got out, folks, I think it’s pretty obvious. I don’t think he could convince Newt to join forces with him and to take this out to the convention. I don’t think he wanted to do that with Ron Paul. I think he probably just concluded he couldn’t put a coalition together with the people remaining, and that was it. There was just no way forward. That’s my wild guess. Others will expand on this, I’m sure.”
excerpt http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/04/10/santorum_suspends_so_what_now
Rush’s guess shows that he knows that Santorum is no conservative, and thus would never be a conservative “team player” that would stick it out to the convention and prevent a Romney disaster, regardless of who was the ultimate conservative candidate.
Santorum was always the establishment’s “other guy.”
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