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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The former Pennsylvania senator said he had “tried to be a witness”
to the struggles of America’s middle class and a voice for social
conservatives.
“Even when they said we couldn’t win, we were winning because we were
touching hearts and raising issues that frankly a lot of people didn’t want
raised,” he said.
His decision came just hours after he returned to the campaign trail following
the hospitalisation of his three-year-old daughter Bella. He took a four-day
break from the campaign to care for the child, who has a life-threatening
genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18.
He said the time at his daughter’s bedside had been used for “prayer and
thought” about the future of his candidacy.
Mr Santorum entered the race with virtually no money and fought a shoe string
campaign in Iowa, often travelling with only a single aide in a pickup truck
that he drove himself.
After months at the very bottom of the polls, the conservative surged in the
final days before the January caucuses off the back of support from
Christian evangelicals.
On the night of the contest Mr Romney was declared the winner by eight votes
but after a recount the result was overturned and handed to Mr Santorum, who
won by only 34.
He struggled in New Hampshire and was all but eclipsed by Newt Gingrich after
the former Speaker of the House won the South Carolina primary and
threatened to defeat Mr Romney in Florida.
But after several weeks in the shadows he roared back into the race with
victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri and looked likely to take Mr
Romney’s home state of Michigan.
However, defeat there and in a string of major states including Illinois and
Iowa once again relegated him to the second tier as Mr Romney’s financial
advantages and superior organisation opened up an insurmountable delegate
lead.
He ends his candidacy having claimed 11 states, mainly in the South and
Midwest, a record of victory that few would have thought possible.
Mr Gingrich and Ron Paul, the libertarian Texas congressman, remain in the
race but neither have the resources to pose any real threat to the Romney
camp.
Many conservatives hope that Mr Romney will pick Mr Santorum as his running
mate, in an attempt to rally the Republican base around his candidacy,
although the prospect is thought to be unlikely.
The two men fought bitterly throughout the campaign, with the the former
senator at one point calling Mr Romney “the worst Republican in the
country to put up against Barack Obama” on account of his Massachusetts
healthcare reforms, which were the basis for the president’s own plans.
Within minutes of Mr Santorum’s announcement, the Romney campaign put out a
statement commending their former rival.
“Senator Santorum is an able and worthy competitor, and I congratulate him on
the campaign he ran. He has proven himself to be an important voice in our
party and in the nation,” Mr Romney said.
“We both recognise that what is most important is putting the failures of
the last three years behind us and setting America back on the path to
prosperity.”
A spokesman for Mr Santorum said they were in talks with Romney aides about
the possibility of staging an official endorsement but that no decision had
been made yet.
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