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Santorum had the opportunity to withdraw graciously, congratulate Mitt Romney - now his party's presumptive nominee - and call for Republican unity in working to defeat President Barack Obama in November.
Instead, Santorum blew it. His rambling 14-minute speech barely mentioned Obama or the economy. And most notably there were two words that did not cross his lips - Mitt and Romney. Graceless. Classless. Making the speech all about him, rather than his country or his party, Santorum ended up looking like the smaller man.
Rick Santorum has a press conference scheduled for this afternoon, but there are already early reports on Twitter that Rick Santorum is going to announce that he's suspending his campaign, apparently confirmed by Fox News and other outlets. Stand by for confirmation and live updates!
Update: Yahoo reports that, earlier today, Rick Santorum called Mitt Romney to concede; you can watch the livestream of the press conference through Yahoo, as well.
Update: It's official -- Tuesday afternoon, Rick Santorum made a graceful exit from the GOP presidential race. Although his daughter Bella was hospitalized last week,...
I wouldn't hold it against Rick if he declared Obama the better candidate.
It's sometimes hard to tell the difference when you 'think' about it.
I disagree that Romney's ads were dishonest. Rick was fairly consistently dishonest. Romney simply pointed out Santorum's warts, which his supporters didn't like seeing. But it didn't change the fact they are there.
had the audacity of getting angry about the lies. I believe Romeny and the RNC were just as complicit as Axelgrease when they did their character assasination of a decent man, my first choice Herman Cain. I...