Where Obama has the gas pedal floored for that cliff, Romney and Santorum would only have that pedal half way to the floor. It doesn't mean that we still aren't going to go over that cliff. It'll just take longer to get there. Romney, Santorum, and Obama are, for all intents and purposes, almost exactly the same: more spending, more war, more government, more debt, and less liberty. Just look at where they all fall on the Political Compass. It wouldn't surprise me if Santorum and Gingrich were asked to remain in the race just to foil the plans of the only real conservative alternative to both Romney and Obama in the race.

If Santorum gets the nomination, it's 4 more years for Obama. Guaranteed. As a non-gambler, I'd even put money on that. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's a landslide. Santorum will lose the youth vote, the Libertarian vote, and the Independent vote. And he also will not be able to pull in disgruntled moderate Democrats or the true anti-war Left. That leaves him with the neoconservative and Religious Right and no candidate can win with just those 2 voting blocs. America doesn't want a warmongering, bigoted, big government, religious zealot who preaches instead of leading. We already have a Preacher In Chief and he isn't even overly religious.

Neoconservatives and Progressives, two sides of the same coin, are vile authoritarians and a threat to freedom and the world.

Bill is an uninformed elitist who constantly misleads his viewers. I used to be able to tolerate him. But when he failed to give a fair shake to all Republican candidates by emphasizing that Ron Paul was unelectable, despite that he has continuously beaten the "electable" candidates, including the President, in polls and caucuses, I had enough and began boycotting his show. Whether you like Ron Paul or not, I think we can all agree that the media needs to treat and vet all the candidates equally and provide the "folks" with accurate, unbiased information. Their failure to do so is what gave us our current Incompetent in Chief.

What amazes me is that most of America wouldn't have even known about this incident if it weren't for the media. I've not met a single individual who actually noticed M.I.A. flipping the bird at the time that it happened.

Continued: Nonintervention is distinct from, and often confused with isolationism, the latter featuring economic nationalism (protectionism) and restrictive immigration. Proponents of non-interventionism distinguish their policies from isolationism through their advocacy of more open national relations, to include diplomacy and free trade. Isolationism Isolationism is the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, foreign trade, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.

I'm growing tired of pointing out, over and over again on various websites, what the difference is between an isolationist and a non-interventionist. Non-interventionism: Nonintervention or non-interventionism is a foreign policy which holds that political rulers should avoid alliances with other nations, but still retain diplomacy, and avoid all wars not related to direct self-defense. This is based on the grounds that a state should not interfere in the internal politics of another state, based upon the principles of state sovereignty and self-determination. A similar phrase is "strategic independence".[1] Historical examples of supporters of non-interventionism are US Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who both favored

Why is anyone even discussing Gingrich OR Santorum? Neither candidate is electable statistically or mathematically. Both have failed to be on the ballot for 564 delegates worth of states which means that they can't win the nomination. There are only 2 candidates with a national campaign who are on all of the ballots who can win enough delegates to secure the nomination: Romney and Paul.

I was under the impression that Norris had already endorsed Ron Paul. Either way, Ron Paul is the only individual whose name is the answer to a majority of the questions that Norris posed. He is the only candidate who will try to shrink the size of our massive, bloated government and its orgy of spending. Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Obama are all big government candidates. Some wish to institute massive social programs and/or tell you how to live your lives. Others wish to increase the size of our already massive war machine and continue the perpetual wars that are ruining the financial futures of our children and making this country less safe. Any way you slice it, it's still big, neoconservative-progressive government with those four.

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. " Source: Bruck, Connie (9 October 1995), "The Politics of Perception", The New Yorker 71 (31): 51, ISSN 0028-792X http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich