That doesn't square all that well with your citation of Rush in #38 which suggests Santorum is siphoning more votes from Romney than he is from Gingrich.
In a race with these three, Gingrich cannot confront those voters between Mitt and a conservative, so they aren’t up for grabs, Santorum muddies the waters, dilutes the contrast, and really confuses who is good and who is bad.
Out of the race the Santorum effect, and his balance of posturing against Newt while leaving Romney mostly alone, and having Romney do the same in reverse, would be gone, giving Newt a chance to pin Mitt to the wall and work on him, Newt could probably win over most Santorum voters perhaps.
We do know that Newt reads Santorum as helping Romney, and so does Romney.
I didn’t know that Santorum was supporting Arlen Specter for President in 1996, and then Romney in 2008.
This is really beginning to stink.