Why isn’t Gingrich the selfish one? He lost Iowa, he couldn’t even tie Santorum in New Hampshire, but he kept going and took the votes from Santorum in South Carolina.
At least, that is as rational a way of looking at is as claiming that Newt somehow is entitled to the votes, and Santorum is evil because he wants to be President.
“Why isn’t Gingrich the selfish one?”
I think it has to do with the consistent inability of Santorum to gain support on a national basis and in key states like South Carolina, Florida, Ohio and his home state of Pa.
Newt is well ahead of Santorum and has a chance to defeat Romney.
Santorum is not evil, but he is completely establishment and has never been anything but in all his history. The only reason he did well tonight was that he and Paul were actually the only ones allowed by the moderator to concentrate on issues.
The mod was too busy trying to feed Gingrich to Romney on a personal level to even let Newt speak about the issues for almost the entire first half of the debate, even though Gingrich did at one point say that he wanted to talk about the things that mattered and not about these personal “gotcha” points.
Santorum has a political career still ahead of him...he's not going to take the risks Newt will to get things done in Washington....this is Newt's final opportunity so he can give it his all. Santorum will not do so without predetermining how it will affect his career. And he's a big government guy ta boot!