“If Santorum concedes to Romney and supports him with gusto, he is on his to a very possible POTUS stint in a few years.”
See, you, like, totally, fail to grasp why Santorum’s in this. You think he cares beans about having his turn in a few years?
He cares about trying to stop the trainwreck that is Romney. He cares about conservative ideas, about which Romney cares jack squat.
He needs to stay in this and he needs as many people to vote for him to show Romnoid just how strong the Not-Romney faction of the party is. Otherwise Romney will think that all the Pubblies love him, that Rubio loves him. That Ann Coulter slobber-loves him. How else is Romnoid going to realize that Rubio just selling his a$$ for a mess o’ Romnoid pottage later unless the Not-Romney vote remains at 55-60% all the way to Tampa.
The uniting around Romnoid can take place after Tampa.
This “unite around Romnoid now” business is all about defeating Santorum and NOTHING ELSE, defeating conservativism. It worked in Wisconsin. And because it worked in Wisconsin, it will work even better in Pennsylvania. Convince enough potential Santorum Not-Romney voters that ROmney’s inevitable and the conservative not-Romney movement folds.
Romney needs to have his nose held to the grindstone as long as possible if there’s going to be a ghost of a chance of influencing him to govern conservatively.
It probably won’t work anyway, but it’s all we’ve got left—to try to impress upon him just how many people DON’T WANT him so that he just might remember that 2 years from now.
So stuff it with the “let’s all unite and be nice” crap now. There’ll be time for that later. Right now is the time to vote against him.
Ain’t gonna happen!!! In the real world, both Santorum and Gingrich are toast!!! I’m not saying I like that, because I was a big supporter of Rick Santorum. But....once he starting putting his foot in his mouth, time after time, I saw his chances flushing down the toilet. And...his continuing falling numbers prove me right!!! Had he stayed on course, and...concentrated on defining, attacking and defeating Obama, he would have beat the pants off Mitt Romney. Too many sidebars, not needed, is what killed his chances, IMHO!!! Sad!!!