I had nothing to do with this post despite it’s title.
He has not endorsed Mittens.
They’re all going to endorse Romney, so there’s nothing surprising about this.
However, in this case, except for their social conservative creds, there was little difference between Romney and Santorum. This means that the people who were supporting Santorum would probably have been supporting Romney anyway, but went for Santorum because he was not a Mormon and because of his social con preaching.
So basically, this means that the mass of GOP voters are big-government nanny-staters who differ from Dems only in their somewhat more conservative social positions and perhaps their rhetoric. The RNC is not shaping the voters, but following them. That is the thing that this campaign revealed to me.
Any of the genuine, intelligent conservatives with truly conservative fiscal and political positions were either never able to get off the ground and run in the first place, or never got support from the “conservative” leaders such as Coulter, Limbaugh, etc., who all basically supported Romney from the start (well, once we got past the amusement value of Cain).
The religious vote basically just muddied the waters, the way they did in the last campaign by going for Huckabee, but I think the real lesson is that the last four years have actually led most people to accept the big-government nanny-state as a given and the way things will be in this country. Pretty sad.