See you in 2016, but be warned - we will remember you as the same joke we know you to be now. Yes, you will continue to rely on the coalition of support from the ultra-hateful/massively ignorant, but that peculiar niche will never carry you to any success because there are enough people who know just what an unhinged bottom-feeder you are. You spent half your 2012 campaign backing away from/denying either your own inflammatory and antisocial remarks or those of your supporters. What has America learned about Rick Santorum? He's anti-college, anti-birth control, vastly uninformed, and he believes that America should live according to his religion. And the incorrect nonsense. Rick, you have have confidently proclaimed so many untruths in the name of ginning up your torch-wielding, partisans. According to you, the University of California system is so liberal it doesn't even teach history. You pulled from your ass the false claim that it is a requirement of a territory to "speak English" before it becomes a U.S. state.
You are clearly delusional so I will help you realize something your fantasies prevent you from acknowledging. Repeatedly making up outrageous falsehoods on camera makes you an ineligible candidate for president in the minds of the majority. You are not on the same page as the rest of America. America is not hungry for Rick Santorum. Your party isn't even hungry for Rick Santorum. Your home state isn't hungry for Rick Santorum. But still you imagined that if you beat Mitt Romney for the nomination than the rest of the country would elect you. Rick, you are less likable than Mitt Romney.
Fact is, my heart breaks that you won't be the Republican nominee. If you were, it would accomplish two things. It would prove to you for once and for all that you are the fringe and not the mainstream as you think you are. It would also make for an easier win for the incumbent, who while not perfect, is far more steady, measured and mature than you are.
Now off you go to undertake something over the next three years that will make an even more questionable candidate in 2016. What will it be? Lobbying against hate crimes? Establishing an anti-Obama think tank? Hosting a show on FOX? Before that happens, though we have yet to see how you play out the rest of the election season. I can't see any way you aren't a liability to Mitt Romney. If you speak on his behalf on the campaign trail, Romney will inevitably be compelled to dance away from your extreme rants which seem to innately pour out of you. If you find backing the Massachusetts moderate distasteful, many of your dispirited legions may decide to sit out the election, recalling your advice that Republicans might as well vote for Obama in November if they pick Romney as the nominee. Whooops.
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