As much of a douchecanoe as I think Santorum is, I wouldn't get on his case for this one. If you're not from PA (and weren't in State College to hear the scuttlebutt that must have been around at some point) you have NO idea how much of a shocker this all was. None.

Mitt took Michigan and Arizona today.

My favorite part of Mitt winning in Michigan was his statement about repealing Obamacare. I can see why he's against universal health care after signing the Commonwealth Care Act in 2006.

Define "takes" -

"UPDATE: Despite Mitt Romney's overall victory in Michigan on Tuesday, he will split the state's 30 GOP delegates evenly with his chief rival, Rick Santorum."

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/..._contests.html

Touche' They didn't have that level of detail when they 'called it'.

Um, I have a question..

Why is ANYONE still voting for Rick Santorum?

Cause they want anybody but romney

I hate to say this, but the Democratic Party and unions in Michigan were encouraging Dems to vote for him in the primary in hopes that Romney wouldn't get the nomination because they think Romney has a chance of beating Obama but Santorum doesn't.

I do not agree with that in principle. Republicans should vote in the Republican primary. Democrats should vote in the Republican primary only if they would really vote for that candidate in the general election when November comes. (I did that once, for McCain, in 2000, before he started pandering to the ultra conservative right, and I would have voted for him that year.) Independents should vote for the candidate they would vote for in November also.

Purposely skewing primary results is shady to me.

GOPers were urging Republican voters to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008 to keep Obama from winning the Democratic nomination. So, this isn't new. Shadiness goes and comes all the way around.

I know. And I think it is wrong both ways.

I agree. The first amendment guarantees the right of free association. I think that each party should be allowed to pick its own nominee, and open primaries are inherently troublesome.

...because he caters to unspoken and spoken religious and racial prejudices. Romney is far too sophisticated to get down like that--and that's what many on the far right want. That's obviously not the only reason Romney isn't that popular but it explains Santorum's success.

I don't like it even one little bit - but mostly because of the massive potential to backfire. I want Santorum nowhere near the White House, and even running against Obama in the general election is too close.

I mean, at least Hillary was a more viable candidate.

What's the potential for this backfiring? It's a political mechanism, one of many, that's both sides use and both sides, for whatever reason, allow.

And as has been noted, Rush Limbaugh advocated this in 2008, and Romney is on record as saying he did this himself, voting in the '92 Democratic primary for Paul Tsongas, to slow the momentum of Bill Clinton.

What if something happened (PLEASE GOD NO) to President Obama between now and election day, and Joe Biden either had to campaign for President Obama or campaign for himself?

I didn't word correctly - I don't think the potential itself is massive, I think the backfire is massive.

If, FSM forbid, something happened to Obama, I do not think it is Biden who would step in as the democratic candidate.

I agree with you, though, it is stupid to assume that the dems have a lock on beating Santorum.

HUH? Wasn't Hillary the candidate to beat going into the primaries?

I agree. I also saw some calls on FB for Michigan dems to get out and vote for the most "douchy" guy :rolleyes:

I think it would depend on timing. There might not be enough time to find a democratic candidate. If something like Watergate came up right before the general election forcing Obama to resign and a Santorum win.... I'd LOL first, then cry, then slap a vote fraud-ing liberal.

If liberals mess with the Republican primary process because "there's just no way Santorum could win a general election," and he wins the primary and goes to the general election, and something goes wrong with the Obama campaign, I'm going to slap every person who voted in the Republican primary that I meet.

That was the point of my post. While the chances might be low that any of that happens, it's not a chance I'm willing to take.

I guess this makes sense. Above everything else, I wondered why Republicans would vote for him knowing that there was little chance he'd actually win the presidency over Obama. However, I also know that there are some people out there who do actually want him to win the whole damn thing.. And they actually believe he can do it.

Definitely not new.. And definitely not right.. But at least the thought of Hillary being president didn't scare the s*** out of me.

Back in the day when Texas was Democratic often Republicans and Independents would vote in the Democratic primary because that was the "real" election.

It's still like that over here in El Paso. Quite a few of the candidates end up running unopposed come general election.

My grandmother registered and voted as a Democrat for years even though her beliefs and sentiments were always with the Republican party because she knew that generally speaking no Repblican stood the proverbial "snowballs chance in hell" of getting elected in the state of WVa, so she figured the best thing she could do was vote in the primaries and try to get in a moderate Democrat. Not sure that was terribly successful either but she gave it a shot until she moved to Virginia and immediately changed her party affliliation.

Yeah, my workplace forbids any kind of outward political affiliation for employees, but the one thing we are allowed to do is register as a Dem in DC. Since DC is so heavily Democratic, we need to vote in the primaries to have any say.

That could be any of the four.

Have I told you lately that I love you? LOL

Rick Santorum calls Mitt Romney to concede

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...180027008.html

I read this as Rick Santorum calls FOR Mitt Romney to concede, and it was the best laugh of my morning.

I read it at first as "Rick Santorum calls for Mitt Romney to secede." That was confusing.

The Santorum jokes are really going today.

*praying that 88% of said jokes are from Dan Savage*

I almost typed "flowing" but stopped short.

Oops.

Here's a Santorum themed party finger food.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Twix-Santorum/

That dessert looked like it was oozing with flavor.

OK. I'm done for real now.