Close, but no cigar.
Saundra is much younger and much prettier than I; and she is a much better shot.
People who own a website get to set the rules. Advocacy of Romney is unacceptable here, and even appearing to do so can get people in a lot of trouble, including being kicked off Free Republic.
To make clear where I stand, I'm very much aware of the possibility of Mitt Romney offering the vice-presidency to Rick Santorum if Santorum becomes enough of a threat to damage Romney's chances of winning the general election without Santorum being able to win the nomination himself. That would be the politically smart thing for both Romney and Santorum. It's what I would do if I were a pragmatic businessman and were not dealing with issues of critical principle.
However, we're not talking about business deals here.
Compromise has a place in business and in many areas of politics, but it does not have a place in matters of life and death, and that is quite literally what we're dealing with on the abortion issue. I'm willing to go down fighting rather than cut a deal on issues related to killing defenseless babies, unless I can be absolutely certain that deal will be an incremental step toward saving more lives of babies.
Bluntly, I don't trust Romney farther than I can throw him on the abortion issue, and I don't want him being the one to nominate two and perhaps more Supreme Court justices. As much as I want President Obama out of office, I'd rather see a Democratic president and a Republican Senate killing Obama’s agenda than see a President Romney ramming weak-kneed judicial candidates through a Republican-controlled Senate. We already have far too many justices nominated by Republicans who started going squishy after their confirmation hearings.
I know what I'd do if offered a Faustian bargain by Romney. However, I'm not Rick Santorum, I don't have access to the sort of inside information he has, I don't have the ability to cut a backroom deal with Romney for something which might be absolutely critical, and I have no way to tell Santorum what to do. It's his decision, not mine.
What I very much hope is that a scenario such as what you suggest never happens. I don't want to see a Romney-Santorum ticket; I want Romney defeated and knocked out of Republican politics, preferably driven into the Democratic Party like Santorum’s former colleague Arlen Specter. Romney isn't a Republican and like a lot of the old blueblood northeast Republicans, he ought to go to the Democratic Party where he could actually do some good by promoting the value of business in a party which seems to like a morality-free environment.