Rick Santorum Turns GOP Race Upside Down with Stunning Sweep of Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado – 2/7/12

It’s a huge three state sweep for Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s contests – Missouri by 30 points (55%-25%), Minnesota by 18 points (45%-27%), and Colorado by 5 points (40%-35%). Almost no one thought this was possible, although I must point out I said this morning I thought there was a chance Santorum would win all three! Indeed, he did. The race is very different now, with Santorum showing he can defeat Mitt Romney head-to-head and on his turf.

MSNBC: Rick Santorum swept three nominating contests held Tuesday evening, upsetting frontrunner Mitt Romney and injecting new energy into the former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign.

Santorum scored broad victories in the Minnesota caucus and a primary in Missouri, according to NBC News projections. But Santorum’s most significant upset came in Colorado, where the state GOP declared him the apparent victor in caucuses there. Romney made his hardest push of the three states in Colorado, having campaigned there and spent money on advertising. Santorum’s upset raises fresh doubts about the breadth of Romney’s appeal to Republicans, and abates some of the momentum Romney had built from consecutive victories in the Florida primary and Nevada caucus.

“I don’t stand here to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney; I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama,” Santorum told a raucous crowd in Missouri. . . . Read More

Newt Gingrich finished way back in all three contests tonight (didn’t even make the ballot in Missouri). Given how poorly he has shown in the last several contests, look for pressure to increase on him to get out of the race so conservatives can galvanize around one candidate to stop Mitt Romney.

Posted by Brian on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012   |   6 Comments »
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  • just an average voter

    If this man is the repub nominee, I would say good luck repubs for blowing  golden opportunity to oust Barry.

    ”
    St. Charles, Missouri (CNN) – Rick Santorum opened a new front Tuesday in his
    battle to paint Mitt Romney as moderate who sided with Democrats on key issues,
    accusing the former Massachusetts governor of mandating that hospitals provide
    emergency contraception to rape victims.”

    Yea, so independents like me really think this “moderate” position is that evil to provide for rape victims. Socially I’m not that conservative, however I absolutely oppose things like fed funds for abortion.  But this extreme social position by Santorum, he really thinks he’s going to get independents, even those who cannot stand Barry, to vote for him?? Does he think the LSM will not pounce on all this?

    My goal is to vote for someone who can defeat Barry, Santorum will not do it in swing states, and those 10 or so states are all that matters, and there Romney is even or beating Obama.

  • Brad

    I am highly impressed.   Santorum proved me wrong and probably a lot of other folks.  If he can actually beat Romney, I’m 100% behind him.  

  • Brad

    What an incredible contrast Santorum vs. Obama would be.  Could you find 2 people more opposite?  I mean in ideology.  

  • Brad

    How is that an extreme position? The government should not require any private institution to do anything except not break the law.   But the government overreaches in the area of anything related to sexuality because they like to play god.  After a rape, the potential baby is not the problem.   The rape effects, the victim, and the perpetrator are what need to be dealt with.  Liberals have their focus in the wrong place.

  • just an average voter

    “After a rape, the potential baby is not the problem.   The rape
    effects, the victim, and the perpetrator are what need to be dealt
    with.”

    Oh I see, so the rape victim is not really a victim, if that victim is pregnant, that rape victim has no say in having that child who will be a constant reminder of what was done to her????

    No one is forcing an institution to go around providing abortions as a form or birth control, I even oppose the whole HHS dictating to Catholic charities to provide birth control, that is is against that faith, I accept that.

    But the fact that no compassion is even shown to a rape victim to be is stunning if as Santorum says that the rape victim has no say as to what happens to a child that they did not want or because of their actions, it was done to them! Of course the focus should be on the perpetrator, but the rape victim is a VICTIM, and they should have absolute say in what happens to a potential pregnancy that was forced on them.

  • Brad

    What do you mean the rape victim is not really a victim if they are pregnant?  Who said that?  Also, do you have information that says if they kill the baby that they will feel better later in life regarding the rape?  This is the same mentality that perpetuates abortion because people think if they hide the effects then they will feel better when in fact, studies show women feel much worse the rest of their life for having killed a life within them.  But the people around the women feel better as it is easier for them.  By the way, many of these abortions are rape cover-ups where the woman was taken advantage of in one way or another.  Emergency contraception kills the life if there has been conception.  It does nothing to make the victim feel better about the rape.  In fact, it is another invasion into their body following the previous invasion.   Additionally, contraception such as this has been linked to breast cancer and other medical issues down the road so that does not help.  Finally, this does not require the woman to raise the child.  But here is the bottom line.  The concept of mandating emergency contraception following rape is, in all practical reality, requiring the hospital to give it as part of their treatment – the woman in trauma is not given much of a choice here – and the government imposing ANY health requirement on these hospitals is an overreach of government and the fundamental philosophy behind Obamacare at the same time – that they can pick and choose what anyone does depending on the prevailing option of the day.  This may seem like a good idea now but killing off some type of person may be the good idea tomorrow.  


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