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.
