"Joy and pleasure are as real as pain and sorrow and one must learn what they have to teach. . . ." -- Sean Russell, from Gatherer of Clouds
"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg
"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"
“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings
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Yes. The steady drift to the right will make the party irrelevant. Its only natural constituency now is the Christian-Fascist right which is White, racist and concentrated in the old South. Gay? Women? Blacks? Very hard to see these groups supporting Santorum. Obama would have to really screw up for Santorum to stand a chance. Not that that isn't impossible, unfortunately.
Barring an outright purchase of the election -- which these days is not out of the question -- Santorum has no chance of winning against Obama or anyone else -- except maybe Perry or Bachmann. (He did do better than "other" in New Hampshire, which the latter two did not.)
I suspect the election's going to depend on who stays home -- social conservatives, if Romney is the Republican nominee, or the left, where there's a certain "fool me twice" attitude. Obama's new pugnaciousness may be too little, too late.
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