[Lakeshark]

Santorum (and Newt) would have been beaten in an even bigger landslide than Romney. It would have been a tidal wave of epic proportion, even worse than Mondale's loss to Reagan.

Full disclosure: I hoped for Newt during the primaries, voted for Santorum in our primary to strategically stop Romney even though I preferred Newt.

[JCBreckenridge]

As did I, but I was in Texas, so it didn’t make much of a difference.

I think we had an obligation to run Santorum as an actual conservative candidate. It didn’t matter whom got in - Romney pushing Romneycare or Obama pushing Obamacare. At least now we have a conservative party.