Congratulations to Rick Santorum for winning the Missouri Primary and the Minnesota and Colorado Caucuses. The real loser tonight is Newt Gingrich. All of a sudden we have a new conservative alternative to Mitt Romney and it is not Newt. I like Rick Santorum and he often expresses the frustrations of Americans. I am intrigued by his plan to not tax domestic corporations that manufacture products here in the United States to encourage business to return manufacturing to the United States so every thing we buy is not made in China and/or elsewhere.We need to return manufacturing to the United States and he has a definite plan. This should be popular in the "rust belt" of the U.S. He has a populist appeal because of his blue collar roots.
Santorum still needs to prove he can expand his appeal outside the Republican activist that dominate caucuses.
The advantage of having Rick Santorum, as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, is that in the end Romney could pick Santorum as his running mate (or the other way around) to unite the Republican Party. Romney could NEVER pick Newt if Gingrich was the conservative alternative. In addition to Republicans, Mitt appeals to independents and Rick has the potential to appeal to social Conservatives and blue collar Democrats who are with us on social issues and on a strong defense and foreign policy. The kind of Democrats Obama thinks he is smarter than, because they "cling to their religion and guns." Reagan Democrats!
I support Mitt Romney, but also like Rick Santorum and both will have been tested by the 20 plus debates and a vigorous but not destructive primary campaign. So long Newt !
