The Rick Santorum Canard

This is your boy-child "conservative" option?

I actually like sweater vests - but are we supposed to believe that all  "conservatives" are now for Rick Santorum - and not Newt Gingrich?  I thought Newt was the real conservative?  I thought Newt "spoke to the people" and would "take the fight" to Obama.  Well apparently not.  Talk about being principled about your candidate.   So now those committed, fiery, disciplined Newt "Tea Party folks" have flip-flopped to Santorum?  Captain Earmark?  What a joke.  Rick wasn't even a compelling guest on Fox News the past few years. Sarah Palin must be wishing she got in this mess.

The Far Right (which I have a problem with as much as the Far Left) are committed to derailing this election cycle with this silly "who is the most conservative" argument.  Instead of coalescing behind a successful businessman, a prominent conservative governor of a liberal state (Massachusetts) and a turnaround specialist for the Olympics, many "Republicans" think a guy who lost his last real election by 18 points can take on Obama?  It's crazy.  Why do Republicans keep killing themselves on ideology (the same thing we blame the leftists on) in order to undermine the country?  These are the same folks who bailed on McCain (because of immigration) and now say they will bail on Romney - who, by the way, has been strong on the topic and even aggresively campaigned on it in hispanic Florida with the primaries on the line.

Look, Romney just didn't campaign in these states that don't actually commit delegates (something that Hillary also did without great results) - and the turnout was correspondingly low because most people think he had it won - and they weren't real primaries.  It's that simple.  But Santorum did campaign in those states.   That's what a guy who polls 10% (i.e. loses) in Florida and Nevada does - he moves onto the lesser caucus states.  Frankly, this was more of an indictment on Gingrich - and the fluttering commitment of ill-minded conservatives who can't see the forest from the trees.