Amelia
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Romney won the nomination when he came back to win Michigan imo
It should have, as it demonstrated why Santorum won't win in the long run. He's too vulnerable to Super PACs. Every state where he was supposed to start a come back Romney would roll in with his PAC horses and steal the election out from under him. If Santorum can't beat a Massachusetts Liberal in the GOP primary he won't in the general.
But that's the rub, isn't it.
By all rights, Santorum should never have gotten this close, nor should it have taken this much of an effort to beat him. Santorum was polling in single digits, last place back in December, and now Romney is having to throw everything he has at him.
The real problem Romney has isn't Santorum, it's ROmney. He someone who isn't liked by his own party, but the leaders of the party have deluded themselves into thinking he is "electable". (Even though the man has only won one election in his life.)
The GOP and SCOTUS made this happen with their changed primary rules and Citizens United. In your narrative it is important to put this all on Romney's weaknesses but if the GOP's new rules hadn't facilitated Santorum's continuing presence in this race, he wouldn't have been around to hypocritically cast Romney's achievements as something Romney should be ashamed of.
The GOP is splintered in a way I don't know if we can recover from. Mouthing some of the same fiscal and limited gov't ideals but profoundly split along social ideological lines.