Leave it to Newt Gingrich, back in his role as strategist rather than candidate, to state the obvious reality of Mitt Romney’s commanding position in the Republican presidential race.
“You have to be realistic,” Gingrich said today on “Fox News Sunday. “He is far and away the most likely Republican nominee.”
That matters almost not at all for Gingrich, whose campaign has morphed into an irregular traveling road show with a newly stated goal of guarding against any Romney lurches toward the center, at the Republican National Convention and beyond.
But it should matter a great deal to Rick Santorum, who has more at stake in these next few weeks than any other Republican, up to and including Romney himself.
The hospitalization of Santorum’s 3-year-old daughter, Bella, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that’s usually fatal in young children, has pulled the candidate off the campaign trail at least through Monday.
When he’s able to return to campaigning, Santorum will have to decide whether he wants to. The primary in his home state of Pennsylvania looms just two weeks away, and Santorum will be risking much of what he’s achieved in this campaign if he suffers an embarrassment there.
As for what he’s risking, recall that few Republicans and fewer pundits thought much of it when Santorum announced his presidential candidacy. He then consistently registered approximately nowhere in the polls.
“You have to be realistic,” Gingrich said today on “Fox News Sunday. “He is far and away the most likely Republican nominee.”
That matters almost not at all for Gingrich, whose campaign has morphed into an irregular traveling road show with a newly stated goal of guarding against any Romney lurches toward the center, at the Republican National Convention and beyond.
But it should matter a great deal to Rick Santorum, who has more at stake in these next few weeks than any other Republican, up to and including Romney himself.
The hospitalization of Santorum’s 3-year-old daughter, Bella, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that’s usually fatal in young children, has pulled the candidate off the campaign trail at least through Monday.
When he’s able to return to campaigning, Santorum will have to decide whether he wants to. The primary in his home state of Pennsylvania looms just two weeks away, and Santorum will be risking much of what he’s achieved in this campaign if he suffers an embarrassment there.
As for what he’s risking, recall that few Republicans and fewer pundits thought much of it when Santorum announced his presidential candidacy. He then consistently registered approximately nowhere in the polls.
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