Santorum-Paul alliance formed in WA

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Why should Democratic and Independent taxpayers have to foot the bill because REPUBLICAN candidates failed to follow rules in place since the 1950's in a REPUBLICAN primary for the REPUBLICAN Presidential nomination? It is absolutely insane. Rick and Newt had their chance and blew it. All the rules were followed and their is no grounds to have it redone other than, "We are epic fail and out of fairness you have to let us have another chance". No they don't and it ain't happening. Plus the Governor is a potential VP choice for Romney so I doubt he would consider it even if there was a valid complaint, which there isn't.

If the TP would have found some more reasonable candidates instead of the quacks and fruits that barely lasted six weeks before they were down for good or driven out, this wouldn't be an issue. The only semblance of a seriously organized tea party candidate was Rick Perry and he was done by September. Since then, their candidates have relied on debate driven medium exposure and other inexpensive out reach efforts to drive bottom up enthusiasm, but lacked the top down structure to make sure such was channelled effectively. Hence the tea party castrated themselves and played right into the establishment's hands in this election.