mocked on the internet. he was infamous for the compare sob he made between homosexuality and bestiality. this guy was not seen as a contender. but it was the most conservative of that party who really held him, if you will, through this process and made him a chief rival because they were unwilling to support mitt romney. what was extraordinary was, as you remember when this republican campaign season started in the spring of 2011, we saw one republican after another soar in the polls, only to crash back down to earth. we saw it with michele bachmann. what was very interesting, rick santorum was the one who ended up being able to pull out a very narrow victory in iowa in that first contest. and of course, he wasn t able to use that iowa victory as a spring board later on. where he found some good strategy was he concentrated in a lot of the early february contests that mitt romney wasn t
the hopes of americans. what we can do to confront the violent radical islam and particularly, the scourge of iran. what we can do to take on the problems of a sluggish economy and washington has grown so big. we put forth concrete solid plans, many of which came from the people that i had an opportunity to interact with throughout the course and time of this campaign. we did focus a lot, yes, on the families and the dignity of human life and the moral enterprise that is america. and i know joe klein will be upset about this. one of my favorite articles was the one that he wrote where his headline was, rick santorum s inconvenient truths. and talked about things that maybe we should talk about a little bit more but somehow get shoved aside in the public discourse. we talked about how we would build a great country from the bottom up and we carried around our copy of the constitution. and of course, it was that constitution that got the tea
future. all right, chuck. thank you. let me bring in andrea mitchell. this is all peculiar timing for you. you have a big guest scheduled tomorrow with the santorum campaign. you ended your show by saying, i don t know if he will show up. here we have the information that the campaign is suspended. it will be a good opportunity. we hope he shows up because it will be a good opportunity to see what happened. there are a lot of questions to be answered. is he going to endorse mitt romney? you know there have been very, very contentious things said. will he withhole his delegates and still win a couple of primaries? i think if you look at the wisconsin results, he was losing his grip on the white evangelical voters. in fact many were voting for mitt romney. he won more than any primary in massachusetts and new hampshire. so he was beginning to make inroads with what we would have thought was trul s base.
a voice, a constituency that hasn t had someone to look to since sarah palin on the bottom of the mccain ticket. that s a fantastic point. santorum said that they didn t trash anybody. i couldn t help but to think about this ad, for example, that s up in pennsylvania. mitt romney s folks suspended the ad but basically it said that pennsylvania didn t want rick santorum as the senator and they don t want him to be the president. he specifically noted that he didn t trash anyone. and we know that we heard it from newt gingrich as well. a lot of that language they direct at mitt romney. i can t hem but think that that ad in particular may be the reason that rick santorum kept mitt romney s name out of his concession speech. it is one of those, it felt like piling on. you remember the romney campaign. they announced that they pulled it monday morning. but it had gotten some airing and it certainly was getting some, not a lot, but it was getting some airing. and as brian pointed out, th
how much did the time at home over the easter holiday, having to face this challenge with bella, sort of impact him in a way that said, you know, having to deal with a negative campaign that could have gotten rough, could have gotten ugly, and sort of really embarrassing. that s not the way he wanted to go out. he does get to go out on a higher note this way. and that s something that, he could end up still winning a primary or two in may as a quote, suspended campaign. absolutely. and i ve got this in. mitt romney has said he has spoken with santorum. they ve talked. romney wants him to endorse him. this is what david gregory has put in. this is some of the information we have. the reality is what kind of player in this game will rick santorum be? as i pointed out, you know this as well. he even complained about fox news of all places, not really giving him the attention. he took on bill o reilly. felt that he was this ignored