Santorum’s supporters really don’t want Mitt.
Santorum may very well be a Pied Piper using heavy speeches to suck conservative voters in so he can become their leader and deliver them to Romney for the fall.
At the point Rick changes his tune to support Romney may be the point that conservatives who support Newt can say “See I told you so” and maybe change the equation.
I hope the Santorum delegates are in a position to say NO to Santorum if Rick throws his support to Romney to get Mitt over the top in delegates.
I think Santorum is guilty of nothing more than excessive confidence in his personal judgments. I thought this confidence only included matters of scripture, but it's now clear that I was mistaken. I think he's got a minor case of Second Coming Complex, as in he thinks, if he's not the Messiah himself, he's at least an acolyte to the Messiah. All politicians have delusions of grandeur. I wish Santorum had displayed his weaknesses earlier in the nomination process.