Why is this not more of a concern?

A ringing endorsement for the old-line Senate leadership from Louisiana, tonight.

Certainly, your thinking matches the desire of the DNC. I am hardly part of the party establishment – far from it, but it is clear to me that Romney has a much better chance to beat Obama than Santorum. So, I am not holding onto a prideful sense of political purity, nor is anyone who understands how important this election is. Businessmen, all businessmen, like Romney are open to all ideas but act only on facts. That is how you achieve success. He does an awful job of articulating that. Unfortunately, Santorum and Obama are nearly mirror images in terms of lightweights with good political instincts.

on RS for endorsing liberal Republicans Specter and Christie Todd Whitman, but is now laughingly being accused of supporting Obama over Romney. At least Santorum has been a key player in passing conservative initiatives such as welfare reform and the partial-birth abortion ban. What exactly has Romney every accomplished legislatively other than the albatross called Romneycare? Romney’s only conservative accomplishments have been in his dreams.

I don’t think Santorum is going to be the nominee, he’s better than Mitt but Santorum doesn’t get support from fiscal conservatives.

An additional perk for Newt continuing to stay in this is he’s putting Obama on the defensive while Santorum and Romney are duking it out.

As long as Newt puts the majority of his attacks on Obama while Romney and Santorum beat each other bloody, Newt has a pretty good shot of being the nominee, because the Santorum delegates will be so against Romney that they absolutely will not support Romney. The Romney delegates will be so totally against Santorum that they absolutely will not support Santorum.

All Gingrich has to do is make sure that Romney can’t hit the magic number even if Paul throws his support to Romney. If you’ll notice he’s largely focusing fire on Romney and Obama (but mostly Obama).

If Gingrich determines that he is only benefitting Romney by staying in, he’s rather likely to leave the race and endorse Santorum.

Santorum needs to keep focusing his fire on Romney and Obama, he’s probably not going to pick up to many Romney supporters but will likely drive them over to Gingrich.

One thing I think this has proven is just how “electable” Romney is, or to be more accurate how unelectable he is.

One thing I know for sure, if Romney is the nominee we’re going to lose in November, and it will prevent us from taking the senate, and worst case it will cost us the House too. He’s burned too many bridges, plus Santorum’s comments (no matter how much he tries to walk them back), plus the “etch-a-sketch,” Bain Capital, Romneycare, etc. nominating Romney would be handing Obama four more years on a silver platter.

Santorum has burned quite a few bridges and that could hurt him in the general, however he has a much better shot because he doesn’t have the Romneycare issue.

Gingrich may be simply directing his attacks on Obama while letting his opponents beat each other senseless, because nothing he says will get them to stop.

not that far apart when it comes to what they believe, then there is not going to be very much excitement from many conservatives.

Look, this is easy, I cannot trust anything Romney has said this cycle, and I can only go on what people have done. Romney has proved time in and time out he would say anything to win, I frankly could care less if the GOP think he is electable, he is a fraud. Now will I support him over Obama, yea, more than likely, because Obama will tick me off as much as Romney has, in fact he already has. But do I think conservatives will really care if Romney wins, no I really do not think people will back him unless he runs really far to the Right of Obama. You look at Romney’s past and you will not find that much different than Obama.

As an independent conservative, why should I believe Romney, I do not like him. I really do not like him. In fact I believe Obama is wrong 99% of the time, But most people in this country like him. If Romney was a real conservative, I still would not like him The way he does things, the stuck up look on his face, the superiority complex. The lies, the dirty tricks. I want my president to be above depending on the insiders to win the race for him.

Let’s be honest. Santorum has nothing else to do. He has spent more than half his life in political campaigns. Running for office is his career. Jason will give up on “Halloween” but Santorum quits running for something. It’s an ego trip.

The least likely scenario would be for Romney to take the hint that he can’t win the general and should get out of this.

Then maybe we can finally have the campaign be about issues instead of the latest smear.

This is a point I’ve made elsewhere. If Newt wasn’t still in the race, Santorum would have gotten over 50% in LA. No question at all. I don’t know if LA gives all the delegates to someone who wins over 50%, but Santorum, with Gingrich out, could easily have gotten there. I’ve heard that Newt and Paul didn’t get any delegates in LA. So Gingrich helped Romney with the delegate count it appears. His game is backfiring badly.

That they really don’t understand the fact people have rejected Romney because of his behavior. Furthermore, insulting people because they didn’t vote for Romney, turns them even more against Romney.

I don’t know what is the origin for your bigotry against the South, but you’re ignorant and you need to catch up with us in the 21st century.

This goes back to the Huey Long days. Louisiana and most Mississippi River valley locales are POPULIST and don’t trust Wall Street elites any more than they trust Washington elites.

If Mitt Romney was a quarter-billionaire Methodist businessman from Massachusetts with the same record of statements and achievements rather than a quarter-billionaire Mormon businessman from Massachusetts, I don’t think the vote would have come down much differently against Santorum.

members here at RS don’t appreciate you in essence telling them they are all idiots because of their candidate choice.

to whom you just referred would vote for William Jennings Bryant if they could , but hey, we did say we too are a party that has room for many voices .

Those are good numbers.
I didn’t know Louisiana was tilted so far to the Democrat party, and I hadn’t heard of the challenges on the Democrat ticket.
I hadn’t head a single word on Oklahoma either.
Now I wonder why that is…

if he were elected to be President. Once more, he has shown his capacity to say the most foolish things. I can hardly believe he would speak like this before all of the facts of the case have been discovered. His tendency to be one-sided in his views is worrisome no matter what the issue he may be addressing.

…come lately with “gotcha” quotes.

Come with something original or relevant next time.

The demographics are more like Minnesota than Illinois.Two separate polls in February has Santorum up by double digits. The Rasmussen poll may be an outlier. We will see as more polling come in in the next week.

If he doesn’t, he is toast in November when it counts. Two can play this game.

…about your family, would you be willing to pit yourself against the likes of these four and take their abuse for 8 months?

There’s plenty of good people. Problem is, “good people” don’t want the job because of the accompanying BS.

…I’m glad that you do not see me as representing the same party as you do. I am a Republican and I couldn’t care any less about what you consider “conservative.” You say “stand on principle,” yet you can’t even define what your principles are because they change from day to day. You can’t even define it except to say, “It’s the opposite of whatever Obama does.”

It’s people like you that have hijacked the term “conservative” and turned it into some club with a religious litmus test required to partake. Guess what? True conservatives don’t want to be told what to do/think any more by the right than they do by the left.

What’s hilarious is that you think you’re the majority becauseRush says you are. I hate to be the one to break it to you but theo-con/so-cons are not the majority. Rush makes money by telling half-truths to rile up the extreme right and keep them angry. Happy people won’t listen to him. Also, there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny.

Ironially enough, it is, steady as a rock, “team player,” Santorum who wishes to re-elect Obama rather than see Romney win.

Santorum said so, and Rick never lies.