Could Santorum have won?

[Rawlings]

Yes, he could have won.

Let the flame war begin.

For God's sake, Phil.  You pretty much think that every other state in America is going blue except for PA.  The problem is that your state is going deep blue a la New Hampshire when the other states--CO, VA, FL, etc.--are doing just fine as red states.  Wake up, man!  Santorum is a red state republican in a blue state.  End of story.  He lost because he stopped representing his constituency.  That's all.  Send him here to Colorado and we'll elect him for you.

[Rawlings]

Yes, he could have won.

Let the flame war begin.

For God's sake, Phil.  You pretty much think that every other state in America is going blue except for PA.  The problem is that your state is going deep blue a la New Hampshire when the other states--CO, VA, FL, etc.--are doing just fine as red states.  Wake up, man!  Santorum is a red state republican in a blue state.  End of story.  He lost because he stopped representing his constituency.  That's all.  Send him here to Colorado and we'll elect him for you.

That was incredibly funny because you say Phil is in denial about his state and then say Colorado is a conservative bastion

I never said it was a conservative bastion.  It's not...exactly.  But it's a red state and it's a lot more conservative than PA.  Santorum doesn't have to come to Colorado to win--there are lots of other good fits for him.  All I'm saying is that we'll take good care of Rick should he come here.

[Rawlings]

A conservative bastion would be a state like South Carolina and Utah.  Colorado is not quite that.  But it doesn't mean that Colorado isn't a firmly conservative state.  It is.  That's why we were able to elect the Senate's most conservative member and have been so reliably GOP in POTUS elections.  Yet the purple streaks you see in Colorado today demonstrate an independence that disqualifies us from being a Utah or South Carolina.