To paraphrase one wag from a nationally syndicated radio show: Jerry Sandusky will be a special guest on Sesame Street before Rick Santorum is ever elected to the White House.
I think Santorum is a good man and brings a lot of good ideas to the table. But he's not a strong candidate who is going to win over voters outside his core supporters. This is why he lost his own Senate seat in Pennsylvania by a wide margin in 2006.
If Santorum had been nominated in 2012 by the GOP, he would simply have become just another marginal presidential candidate who couldn't even carry his own state ... like Al Gore and Mitt Romney, for example.
What did Romney bring to the table?
We lost Senate seats, we lost house seats. He brought two states that McCain did not win - Indiana and North Carolina.
We were told, endlessly, that we had to vote for Romney because he was the only one who would not damage the Republican party. This did not happen.
“If Santorum had been nominated in 2012 by the GOP, he would simply have become just another marginal presidential candidate who couldn’t even carry his own state”
Romney failed to win PA, and he failed to win even a single county in his home state (something btw, that has NEVER HAPPENED).
So I repeat - what exactly did Mitt Romney bring to the table? What disaster did we avert by choosing Romney over Santorum?