Santorum is doing very well. (debate)

[cthulu2016]

This may be hard to accept but for the last two weeks Santorum has been selectively positioning himself as the relative moderate in the race because he can. He is allowed to play moderate because he has infinite RW-loon street cred.

For instance, Santorum says he would not have voted for the anti-sodomy law struck down by Lawrence v. Texas. Of course he would have... the point is that Santorum is innoculated on all social RW bullshit and can say things like that. (Someone ought to ask Romney if he would have.)

Anyway, he's really roughing up romney at the debate.

Great bizarro planet exchange--Santorum defending his vote (against a Mitt attack ad) to grant felons the vote, chiding Romney for not realizing how important this is for the black community and why would Romeny be against it on MLK day of all things!?

Being on Fox probably makes this an important debate in the SC republican party and Santorum is walking away with the thing.

(Perry is also quite well received. Talking like a cave man and working his secessionist rep in the land of insurectiion.)

I can imagine SC having 4 candidates within a couple of points of each other.

[creeksneakers2]

1. Romney looked perplexed

when Santorum asked him about felons voting.

[Zoeisright]

2. Yeah, I'm impressed.

He hasn't drooled. But his eyes have yet to uncross.

[Kurmudgeon]

3. Scary when you realize that Santorum is beginning to appear as the most sane of the bunch.

I half suspect Santorum may be angling more for the VP position at this point and even with a defeat in 2012, he'd be sitting pretty for a 2016 run. And election 2016 is the one that scares me, it could easily end up as the same as the 2000 election.