I agree with you Jim, but we have a role too. I'm sad to say I fell in line with conventional wisdom early on, and kind of wrote off Santorum as having no shot. The reason he didn't have a shot is because everybody was like me, assuming he had no shot. Friday night on Greta, Santorum challenged Newt to a Lincoln-Douglas debate. If nothing else, the community here, talk radio, Fox, etc. need to talk that up and get an answer from Gingrich's campaign, or at least make it as well known as Gingrich's challenge to Romney. If not, Santorum's failure to get "traction" is no more his fault than a great set of tires on wet clay.
Imho, neither Santorum nor Bachmann were presidential in last night’s debate. I’m sorry.
It appears Santorum is just plain not likable personally to most voters. Seems to be the same problem with Bachmann. I like Bachmann a lot, but apparently not many others do. She was actually second on my list after Palin. I had hopes for Perry to do better, but his “heartless” statement regarding border security conservatives did him in. It’s doubtful that any of the five percenters will ever get their campaigns back on track. But who knows? McCain’s primary campaign was written off early too, but didn’t actually die—until the general.