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All road maps for Santorum (or anyone) go through the GOP leadership. Joel Send a noteboard - 03/03/2012 01:01:07 AM
The only thing more amazing than people who told me two years ago Romney was not the automatic nominee is people who still dispute it.

more than likely he is going to be but he's not out of the woods yet. A relativley bad day coming up and suddenly the narrative is about how bad he did and Santorum surges in the polls nationally and in upcoming states. There is still a road map for Santorum but not winning Michigan made it a hell of a lot harder for him

Which made Gingrich the only nominally credible alternative to Romney from the outset, but he has most of the same problems Hillary did for the same reasons, plus a lot of other baggage she lacked. He has only managed to stick around thanks to large donations from his billionaire casion owner buddy, just as Paul survives on netizenship; I have no idea how Santorum stays funded (maybe the Vatican is paying for it. )

Romney has all the insider connections to party leaders and Wall Street donors, both of whom know a perceived moderate is their only chance against Obama. Grass roots wants are irrelevant; we are talking about the Greedy Old Party, after all. The rank and file base only matter to the extent their turnout is vital on election day, but Republicans tend to see voting as a patriotic civic duty more than Democrats do, and despise Obama so deeply they will show up for any GOP nominee. Many are boll weevil Democrats now fully converted to the GOP; ironically (and tellingly) the most reliable GOP voters are those who once proudly declared their support for even yellow dogs who ran as Democrats. This race was over before it began; the only question is, as it always was, when Romney will be nominated, not if.
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