horse of george

So, Romney wins three more - the race is over - except it isn't, because you still have a fairly large chunk of the republican electorate that seems intent on casting votes without any regard for pragmatism or a reasonable political point of view. Fifty percent of voters who made up their mind on the last day voted for Santorum which seems to be the reason the margin of victory in Wisconsin was a bit slimmer than expected. The only demographic Santorum won was poor, rural evangelicals - yet he plans to stay in the race, which only makes sense [term used with great looseness] if he plans to be even more negative against Romney - if he wants to be seen as a martyr dying on the cross of uber right purity, which I assume is his motive here, he can only do so by continuing to paint Romney as 'phoney', leaving himself then as the 'true' prophet as it were, possibly with a self centered eye turned towards 2016 - but with Obama already in full campaign mode this delusional arrogance serves the interests of no one who hopes to see his presidency come to an end in November. Romney has no choice but to turn his attentions fully to Obama and act as if Santorum et al don't even exist. This may be interpreted as a haughty establishment dismissing of the base resulting in an uber right backlash that hands Santorum Pennsylvania and fans the fetid flames of that tiresome man's ego, but Romney must confront full on Obama's attempt to define him as... well, fill in the blank with whatever cliched left wing Richie Rich adjective one wants to employ.