“I don’t just talk a good Conservative game, I live it!”- Rick Santorum

From inside the belly of the Team Santorum Grassroots -

“Game On” – A total of 110 delegates have been picked to date showing it is – A LONG road to go!

As my dear friend Lisa Graas says of Newt Gingrich supporters……

“Newt supporters are annoying the daylights out of Team Santorum, panicked, trying to convince us that our candidate should drop out and support Newt.

FOLKS. THAT DOG WON’T HUNT.”

Santorum is not shy about letting voters know……

Santorum: “Newt blew it” Santorum: Gingrich blew chance to be the conservative alternative to Romney

Santorum reiterated a call for an issues-based discussion in remarks to supporters later in the evening.

“Republicans can do better than the discussion and dialogue and the accusations that were going on in the state of Florida, and really this campaign went downhill,” Santorum said. “We’re going to have differences on the issues and we need to talk about those differences on the issues, but what we saw in the last few weeks is not something that is going to help us win this election.”

Santorum also promised to turn his sights on Romney, pledging a Wednesday address “on RomneyCare and ObamaCare.”

“We need someone who can draw that contrast. We need someone who can be a conservative nominee,” Santorum said.

More from Lisa Graas - “Newt madness is again proved to be madness by the latest poll from PPP, Trouble ahead for Romney?“

“What might be most interesting in both states is what happens in a head to head between Romney and either Gingrich or Santorum:

-In Missouri Santorum leads Romney 50-37 and in Ohio Santorum leads 45-38.

-In Missouri Gingrich leads Romney 43-42 and in Ohio Gingrich leads 42-39.

Two takeaways from those numbers: if this ever came down to Romney, Paul, and just one out of Gingrich and Santorum, Romney would be in a lot of trouble. And he’d be in more trouble if the single conservative alternative ended up being Santorum.

Santorum is a stronger long term threat to Romney than Gingrich because he has less baggage and is simply much better liked.

Santorum is easily the most popular of the Republican candidates in both Missouri (+42 favor-ability at 63/21, compared to +20 for Gingrich and +10 for Romney) and Ohio (+35 at 59/24 compared to +10 for both Gingrich and Romney). It’s just proving hard for Santorum to get much traction while Gingrich is still in the race.”

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