I am not for Santorum, but he is 100% correct in this...and unfortunately, no one has been able to make this argument stick throughout the process. Perry failed, Newt failed, and Santorum overall has failed to effective message this due to the overwhelming ad spends against each consecutive non-Romney.
The fact is, Mitt is a terrible candidate to run in 2012. He is easy to frame as the out of touch rich guy that doesn’t know what people are going through. His health care record mitigates our huge advantage on health care, and his political record in Massachusetts is not so different than Obama’s. As it stands, no one can beat him, so he’ll probably be the nominee, but his record opens up multiple opportunities for Obama to run to the left of or to the same position as our nominee, which is something he did against McCain with great success. The only thing better about Mitt is that he is stronger communicator than McCain...that’s not saying much, but it is an improvement over 2008.
I won’t defend Romney but everyone can damn well believe I will vote for him versus Obama. Obama is evil incarnate and he must not win.
Satan himself would be preferable.