Rick Santorum says he’s not an unreasonable man and he’ll drop out of the race if it becomes clear that he can’t win:
“When I feel comfortable that we’ve done the best we possibly could and there’s just no more we can do and this race is, you know, we’ve run the course, then you know I’m not an unrealistic person,” Santorum said.
“I mean if that happens – I don’t believe it’s going to happen, but if it does happen – you know then we’ll face it, we’ll cross that bridge. But until that point – less than half the delegates have been voted for – I mean we’ve got a long way to go in this race,” he said.
Of course, if Santorum was realistic, he never would have run for president. He’s done better than he had any right to expect. Ironically, I think he wound up doing the best of the anti-Romneys because he was the worst of the anti-Romney candidates and, thus, the last to rise to the top and get real scrutiny. Had he been a more plausible candidate or a more compelling personality, he would have peaked early and flamed out early. But he was the absolutely most pathetic candidate and person in the field, and so everyone else had crashed and burned, leaving him as the last man standing.
Okay. I’m being slightly unfair. Santorum did put in a lot of effort in Iowa and he won. But what good does that do when you don’t plan for success and make sure your name in on the ballot and you have delegate slates in later states? The truth is Santorum isn’t very good at what he does. He’s a shitty politician. And a horrible insufferable person. I’m just glad Pennsylvania had the opportunity to share him with the rest of the world so you see why we hated him so much.
I told you after Michigan/Ohio, April 3rd, dude. That was when Romneybot was gonna ice it.
Sanny might as well stay in long enough to contest his home state, but his trumped up “midwestern advantage” never actually showed up. People heavily misread the CO/MN week. Romney stopped spending money, and he got humiliated for it. He can’t ever stop spending for a second, because pretty much nobody likes him.
Romney’s purchased base is rich people, suburbanites and Mormons, and in abysmal turn out primaries, that was enough to just scrape by the Evangelical block. Boring for the rubberneckers hoping for a convention brawl, horrifying for the GOP base, but predictable enough from a numbers perspective.
Planning for success and a more advantageous primary schedule might have made it possible, but the biggest problem is Santorum is a jerk who also happens to be half-insane.
You’re being very generous by appending ‘half’ onto there.
Yes, thanks for reminding me:
Attention Pennsylvania. Thank y’all for the gift of Santorum!
I never bothered saying “hello”” in the first place. Santorum had zero chance of being the GOP nominee; he’s way too far to the right for the majority of voters.
Not buying it. I believe Santorum is the future, teach us well and let him lead the way.
GAME ON!!!!!!