This is especially troubling for Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney who - once again - will have a hard time drawing a stark contrast to Komrade Obama. They've all funded Planned Parenthood.

Under the Ron Paul presidency, the federal government will stay out of personal life, education, and certainly doesn't give taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood. The only role of the federal government in the Ron Paul presidency is the role given by the founders: national security.

The way to win over Christians, Catholics and Mormons who are getting fed moralizing, feel-good self-help, works-righteousness deification of sinners, personal stories and sermons based on movies INSTEAD of God's Word is to say "I'LL DEFEAT JIHADISM AND FIGHT FOR EVERY FETUS. ISRAEL....AND FETUSES." It doesn't matter if you've funded Planned Parenthood or voted for foreign aid to Israel's enemies.

You just gotta say "ISRAEL AND FETUSES."

Wow, they went down 9% under Bush. I don't think any pro-life person would find that statistic remotely satisfying.

Weird, because I've pointed you to many instances where I said I'd potentially vote for the Constitution Party candidate, or for Herman Cain.

You know why there are no GingrichBots, SantorumBots or RomneyBots? Because those candidates are exactly the same.

Same on big government (they love it), debt (they're all talk), individual liberty (they don't believe the Constitution protects privacy, Rick has even verbalized this), wars ("9/11 changed everything"), and on lying (they all do a lot of it).

Non-Romney is a myth, unless you are talking about someone UNTAINTED by GLOBALISM, SPECIAL INTEREST, WORLD POLICING, and NANNY STATE.

I agree with you that the result of people like me voting third party could mean Obama gets a second term, but I fear that result not much more than I fear Romney or Santorum.

Maybe a mass exodus and record-setting defeat (Santorum's used to that) is what the GOP needs.

I don't see much of a difference between the two realities. What do you think Russia and China will do if we strike Iran? These things cost money, and we owe $14 trillion to China.

Will the dollar be healthier under Romney or Santorum? Probably not, based on the scenario I just listed, and the fact that Santorum still doesn't fully believe in a free market system, nor is he interested in ending marijuana prohibition which costs our countries billions and also hundreds of lives in border violence.

Will the unjust and endless wars and drone attacks stop under Romney or Santorum? Both of them thought the Iraq War was the right decision.

Will abortions go down under Romney or Santorum? They didn't go down under pro-life President Bush. Santorum's biggest problems on the issue (other than his funding of Planned Parenthood) is that he doesn't want to look at addressing it at the state level, and his self-righteous rhetoric and proselytizing isn't winning minds over, it's alienating them.

So, no. If Obama wins over Romney or Santorum, I'm not seeing where the downside or upside is.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

I think Santorum and Obama are too similar on too many issues: foreign policy, the war on drugs, and the way Santorum wants to tamper with the market with his manufacturing bias and go the more expensive route when it comes to the border (Paul would bring troops from Afghanistan and other places). Santorum has voted for NDAA, torture, Guantanamo Bay, the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act.

I think with the dollar being downgraded, we need someone who isn't going to start us on another expensive war. I would have voted for Herman Cain, but none of the other GOP candidates besides Paul.

Naw. I'm from Newt Gingrich's moon colony.

STOP APPLYING LOGIC TO A FEELING!

It FEELS GOOD to say you are pro-life, yet fund Planned Parenthood, defend preemptive invasions, and pretend to have found WMD's in an attempt to justify said world policing.

If Rick Santorum thinks that by giving families a triple tax advantage and by saying "straight marriage is good!" from the White House (in his imagination) that he is healing America's broken homes, then LET HIM BELIEVE THAT!

Come on, man. CONTRACEPTION is DANGEROUS!

You said Tea Partiers are cool, in the context of an article about Rick Santorum getting Democratic help. I thought you might be able to defend him. That's OK if you can't. I don't think anyone can.

I'm just wondering about something. Does Rick Santorum qualify as a Tea Party candidate when he supported/supports 2.3 billion tax increase to pay for an Amtrak trust fund, the Bridge to Nowhere, "k street" coal subsidies, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the Military Commissions Act, Planned Parenthood, attempting to procure $80 million in coal subsidies, foreign aid, sanctions, increased meth sentences, No Child Left Behind, voted with Barbara Boxer on S Amdt 3230 - Gun Lock Requirement Amendment, taxes in the Internet Access Tax Bill and was the key vote for Debt Limit Increase Resolution?