THE DEFINITIVE THREAD Breaking-Santorum calls news conference for 2:00 Is he dropping?

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To Hell With Them All - No One But Paul

Someone besides RP is running?

 

[Peace&Freedom]

You really aren't giving enough credit to the other candidates. Running for President is truly difficult and Santorum has been running literally for years. Even before Ron Paul was running Santorum was asking people for their support in New Hampshire and in Iowa. Gingrich is a bit of an egomaniac who has really hurt himself with many members of the elite (both supporters of Romney, of Santorum, and those who don't really care about any of the candidates but just want the race over), so he hasn't helped himself in any way, shape, or form.

And you have to remember that if Santorum won Michigan he could well have become the front-runner. That was the closest anyone got to actually defeating Romney. Finally, this primary process has been on the whole horrible for Romney- had Santorum dropped out after Nevada the race would have been long over by now, as Romney had serious momentum and a damaged front-rival in Newt to contend with.

Santorum would never have gotten to Michigan to have a shot if 1) the media hadn't inflated his moribund candidacy with a phony pre-Iowa 'surge' in the first place, and 2) two tycoons hadn't suddenly shown up out of no place to pump cash into Rick and Newt's ad budget. There is no scenario, absent those two factors, where Santorum's candidacy could have lasted past late January. He never had what it took to run a national campaign in 2012, period. Doesn't it strike you at least a tiny bit peculiar how those tycoons just suddenly swooped in, when Romney was most seriously threatened by Paul, and now have just as suddenly swooped out when Mitt looks like he's safe from challenge?

 

[sailingaway]

You really aren't giving enough credit to the other candidates. Running for President is truly difficult and Santorum has been running literally for years. Even before Ron Paul was running Santorum was asking people for their support in New Hampshire and in Iowa. Gingrich is a bit of an egomaniac who has really hurt himself with many members of the elite (both supporters of Romney, of Santorum, and those who don't really care about any of the candidates but just want the race over), so he hasn't helped himself in any way, shape, or form.

And you have to remember that if Santorum won Michigan he could well have become the front-runner. That was the closest anyone got to actually defeating Romney. Finally, this primary process has been on the whole horrible for Romney- had Santorum dropped out after Nevada the race would have been long over by now, as Romney had serious momentum and a damaged front-rival in Newt to contend with.

If Santorum had dropped out while caucus states were still in play the momentum WOULD have shifted to Ron. Santorum was polling last until the evangelicals coalesced after that trumped up CNN poll falsely indicating a 'santorum surge' before Iowa. It wasn't conviction in HIM, but looking for a place to all land together.