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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
While it became clear in recent weeks that Mr Romney’s lead in delegates to
the party convention was practically insurmountable, Mr Santorum had vowed
to fight on until August’s gathering in Florida.
Newt Gingrich, a former House Speaker, and Ron Paul, a Texas congressman –
both of whom trailed Mr Santorum – last night pledged to remain in the race
until the convention.
An ultraconservative evangelical Catholic who was initially dismissed as a
fringe candidate, Mr Santorum, 53, embarked on a shoestring campaign for the
Iowa caucus, the contest’s first vote.
The former Pennsylvania senator, who drove from rally to rally in a pickup
truck, won the January poll but only after a recount, meaning that he was
denied the boost in support it might have prompted.
That momentum instead gathered behind Mr Romney, the long-standing
front-runner, who was initially named the winner of the Iowa poll and used
his vastly superior finances to continue building on his lead.
As other Right-wing alternatives to Mr Romney rose and fell, Mr Santorum
survived to win 10 more state primaries around the US.
His strident moral tone on issues such as abortion and contraception attracted
evangelical voters yet also alienated moderates and concerned the party
establishment.
Mr Santorum last night defended his decision to focus on the elements of the “moral
enterprise that is America” that “somehow get pushed aside in the
public discourse”.
In the end, his unconventional campaign, epitomised by the unfashionable
knitted tank-top that he wore on the campaign trail, was simply obliterated
by the Romney machine.
Mr Santorum raised just $15.7 million (£9.9 million), a fraction of the $75
million (£47.7 million) haul brought in by Mr Romney, a comparatively
moderate former Massachusetts governor.
At the same time Restore Our Future, the external “super PAC”
backing Mr Romney, has been able to lavish millions of dollars on television
attack advertising against Mr Santorum and Mr Gingrich.
In a swing at Mr Romney, Mr Santorum claimed that he had presented a “positive
and hopeful vision for our country” instead of rubbishing fellow
Republicans from the start.
He said that his three-year-old daughter Bella, who suffers from a rare
genetic condition called Trisomy 18 and was admitted to hospital last
weekend, was “doing exceptionally well and is back with us”.
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