Comments about ‘Santorum: I won and raised about $250K Tues night’

I do believe that's a mere pittance of the amount of money Romney has!

Romney has got this in the bag.

He will take down Obama in November - no doubt.

Santorum is a good candidate. But he doesn't have the charisma/speaking ability of either Romney or Gingrich.
If he can overcome that and the money issue, he might very possibly be the Republican candidate.

'He will take down Obama in November - no doubt.' - .Pagan | 2:30 p.m. Feb. 8, 2012

Wow. Someone was SO bored they stole my identiy by adding a . before 'Pagan?'

Obama has a 50% approval rating while Congress has 10%.

I'm just going to take your sarcasm as a given .Pagan.

Is 250K a lot? It really does seem small, though I suppose if he made 250 or thereabouts every day he'd be doing great.

I like Santorum. I like how he's waged a relatively clean campaign. When Newt was going berzerk on Mitt Romney and telling anyone and everyone that Mitt was a 'corportate raider' that Santorum refused to attack Mitt for making money. I respect Santorum's disciplined demeanor.

However.....

We ALL know the federal government is broken. Not just "broke", but "broken", and decades of elelcting similar types of politicians has only left us even more broken than we were before.

So.....how is electing another Washington DC insider going to set us on the return path to common sense and American greatness? You can't honestly say that Mitt Romney is a "Washington insider" because we don't have a problem with Massachussets' government, we have a problem with our FEDERAL government.

I also find it hard to take Santorum as having bullet-proof integrity when he says he's against Romney now but in the 2008 race Santorum publicly backed/supported Romney. Romneycare was around in 2008 so why didn't Santorum object to it then?

And another thing......

Santorum has been hammering away at Romney over his Massachussett's health care law.

If I were Romney I'd ask Santorum what HE would have done if HE were the governor of a liberal state like MA and HIS constituents were clamoring for a state-wide health care system.

It's easy to criticize something or someone but another thing to come up with a plan that YOU would have done. It's a totally fair question and it deserves to be answered.

And Santorum's answer needs to be given within the context of having to come up with his plan while working with conservative-hating Democrats (like Romney had to do) AND his plan would also need to win the general approval of conservatives. I mean, this is what Santorum has been complaining about, ie, that Romneycare is hated by conservatives so what would HE have come up with??

Three points:

1- It's good preparation for the slugfest coming in the general. Like Mitt said, this is preparation time for the party. Now he needs a boxing manager. I can see a scrappy Santorum drawing blood. Mitt's gotta lose the suit and man-up if he wants to get mainstream and Main Street votes. We gotta have a fighter, not a photo-op.

2- It's also good to see that the presidency can't be bought outright. Even with Santorum's flaws, it's comforting to see the liitle guy come from behind. Mitt couldn't buy it 4 years ago, so this is impressive to me that he's still gotta show more substance in his positions and ideas. Great organization, good endorsements, all the glittery pizazz is nice. But this should make Americans proud that we don't just hand over the reins to the best debater-in-chief, i.e., The Prom King.

There's still something lacking, and Independents know that. We just don't know what it is.

3- Now maybe folks here will listen to evangelicals when we say we will vote for Mitt, should he get the nomination. The religion differences are important to us in the eternal scheme, but we are behind a leader who will fight for true American values. And even Rev. Jeffress said that on the same day he infused his religious views (inappropriately) in the fall.

We need to coalesce for the sake of preservation in the wake of the current abomination.

And

Yes, it was a great night for Santorum. But these small victories (two of the contests had no delegates at stake, and one contest he only won by 8 votes) don't compare with Romney's big win in Florida (a 50 delegate state); and also pale when you consider Romney's margins of victory in N.H. (39% Romney-9% Santorum), FL (46-13), SC (28-17) and NV (50 -15).

Overall, Romney has 107 delegates, Santorum has 45 delegates, Newt Gingrich has 32 and Ron Paul has nine.