Rick Santorum: "We Felt it Coming" After Triple Win

It was a great feeling to wake up this morning and realize that there is still a race for the Republican nomination.  The good thing about the days ahead is that Romney and his negative campaigning style will not be able to draw Santorum into the feud which is what he is counting on to happen.  Everyone saw what he did with Newt in Florida with all the millions spent on negative ads.  Believe Santorum will stay positive and not stoop to gutter politics of the Romney camp.  He is a 'facts' man and will be able to refute anything including the kitchen sink the Romney camp will throw at him.  In the process, Santorum will pick up more support from Republicans in the upcoming states who are tired of the negative liberal politics of Romney and his negative ads.

Maybe Romney won't need that USSS protection after all when he gets in States where the people are conservative, the amount of people to his rallies should drop off which was the reason they gave for USSS protection.  

Lot of work to do to defeat Romney once and for all, but I believe conservatives have woke up from the nightmare and are willing to fight to make sure that Romney is not the nominee.  We need to elect someone as our nominee who is positive, likable, and stands on his core values.  Going to be an interesting spring, but my money now is on the positive Santorum versus the negative Romney.

'We Felt It Coming,' Santorum Says After Triple Win
By Susan JonesFebruary 8, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, on the morning after his triple win in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, said he "felt it coming."

"The last few weeks, while we weren't doing particularly well in the polls in Florida and Nevada, we were doing great in getting the kind of support that we needed to keep this campaign going. Our fundraising was maybe our best two weeks, the last two weeks," Santorum told Fox & Friends on Wednesday.

"So we felt it -- we felt it coming, we felt people understanding that we have the best record and the best vision to go up against President Obama. We will make him the issue in this race."
Santorum indicated that the nasty exchanges between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich may have helped him.

"[W]e saw the bickering between two candidates who weren't that different on the issues. Unfortunately, they're not that different from President Obama on a lot of the issues, and I think people are beginning to realize that now."
Santorum said the Americans "are looking for someone who has a positive, uplifting vision for the country."
Asked about Romney now going negative on Santorum -- it's already happening: The negative mailings and robo-calls already have started, he said.

"But the bottom line is -- their attacks on me -- Mitt Romney is saying that I'm not a conservative. I mean, that's just -- that's almost laughable for a moderate Massachusetts governor who has been for big government programs." 

Santorum laughed off Romney's charge that Santorum likes earmarks. Santorum said Romney supported "the biggest earmark in the history of the country" -- the Wall Street bailout.
"Look we've got the best record, and he's going to just have to live with that record, and we're going to make it part of this campaign." 

Santorum also repeated his criticism of the Obama administration's requirement that Catholic-affiliated institutions offer their employees health plans that include contraceptive coverage. 

"The issues I've been stressing are Obama care, the Wall Street bailout and cap and trade -- three issues where Barack Obama and unfortunately, Mitt Romney are right on the same position where they believe in the government managing the energy, manufacturing, health care and financial services sector of the economy -- that's what got us going across this country, and it's going to keep us going all the way to the fall."   

Source:  CNS