I think Santorum is still in at this point to help keep the conservative issues and especially the conservative social issues in view.
I think he believes that if he gets out too early, the issues and campaigns will quickly shift to, “I’m a fiscal conservative but a social liberal” two statements that would be essentially false coming from Gingrich and Romney.
Oops. I meant that that the statement about being a fiscal conservative would be false.
Neither is a true fiscal conservative but both are social liberals.
Why do I say that about Newt? Anyone who agrees that there is global warming and that the global warming is caused by man’s activity and that man’s activity needs to be controlled by the government in order to stop global warming, is not a fiscal conservative. That is the belief of someone who wants to hamstring the free market and individual behavior that grows an economy.