Diehard With A Vengeance

by JASmius

There are two differences between John McClane and Rick Santorum (and no, profanity isn't one of them): Hair quantity and knowing who the bad guy is:

A Mitt Romney victory in the Wisconsin Republican primary on Tuesday could all but end the party battle to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in November...

Even as Romney looked ever more likely to win the nomination, chief rival Rick Santorum said he would not give up just because the Republican party establishment believed voters "need Mitt Romney shoved down their throats."

"Shoved down [our] throats"? Nobody has greater enmity for "open" primaries than I do, Senator, but even if every GOP contest had been closed, Mitt Romney would still be the front-runner because he has gotten by far the most votes. Or, in other words, if anybody has "shoved" Mitt Romney down the voters' throats, it's the voters themselves.

I'm not calling that a good thing, necessarily - I'll point out once again that Governors Pawlenty and Perry were my choices, not Plasticman - but they both lost and dropped out of the race. Just as you have lost and should get the hell out of our nominee's way now, as even Newt Gingrich is (effectively) doing. Instead you continue tilting at this windmill, which can only redound to Barack Obama's benefit. A fact to which you are either willfully blind, or implicitly complicit.

Or do you consider Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan part of the "Republican Party establishment"?

On Sunday morning, Santorum told NBC[CCP]'s Meet the Press that Romney is the wrong candidate to challenge Obama because of Romney's support for a healthcare plan in Massachusetts that was the basis for Obama's health care overhaul that Republicans vow to overturn. Santorum said he was now counting on a victory April 24 in the primary in Pennsylvania, the state he once represented as both a member of the House of Representatives and a senator.

This is because Wally's going to get his ass kicked by Governor Romney in another midwestern state that everybody else but he recognizes as his last stand. And as of late even his prospects for holding on to his old stomping grounds aren't looking so hot.

And if the SCOTUS knocks down ObamaCare, there will go that last strand to which RS is frantically grasping.

"Don't listen to the pundits. ... They're telling you to give up on your
principles in order to win," Santorum said. "Stand up for what you know is right for America. Stand up and vote your conscience."

Even if it costs us the election, and the country four more years (at least) under Obamunist tyranny? Tell me, Senator, what good are our principles if we can't implement them? If the country doesn't survive as a direct result of your pointless, selfish, futile, vainglorious, doomed quest? And what on the face of God's green Earth makes you think that you are the optimal vehicle for those ideas?

I do agree with Rick Santorum on one thing: Do not, indeed, listen to the pundits, Senator - listen to the voters. They've already given you your answer, loud and clear.

[cross-posted @ Hard Starboard]