Regarding Rick Santorum

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I've no clue. I'd like to think that Americans (and even Republicans) are getting less enamored of ignorance and hate-speech coming from their "leaders", but  I really don't know. With the current Republican party, he could crash and burn, take off like a rocket, or anything in between.

If he does somehow get the nomination, I predict a landslide for the Dems' candidate.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I think that nominating Santorum (or someone else from the far social-conservative / tea-party right) could actually end up being good for the party. After the resulting Democratic landslide in the Electoral College, the GOP would finally have the reason and hopefully the willpower to marginalize the right-wingnuts for once and for all.