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Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-longer-his-primary-concern dept.

bobwrit writes with this excerpt from CNN: "Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of 'prayer and thought,' effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney. Santorum made his announcement after the weekend hospitalization of his 3-year-old daughter Isabella, and in the face of tightening poll numbers in Pennsylvania — the state he represented as a U.S. senator — ahead of the April 24 primary. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we made the decision to get into this race around our kitchen table, against all the odds,' Santorum told a news conference, flanked by emotional family members. 'We made a decision over the weekend that while the presidential race for us is over, and I will suspend my campaign effective today, we are not done fighting.'"

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  1. He was backed by the Christian Right. by apparently · · Score: 0, Redundant
    That is, people who view Mormanism as an anti-Christian cult, and thus, distrust Romney. Romney's pledge to "Say whatever it takes to agree with the crowd I am currently speaking in front of" has only fueled this distrust.

    That is to say...

    His backers were the same ones who pushed Gingrich and Bachmann; trying to make the Republicans attack each other for as long as possible

    ...is an idiotic belief* not grounded in any sense of history or reality.

    * In other words, 'the belief of an idiot'.