Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Race to Define Rick Santorum

The Michigan primary, and possibly the Republican presidential nomination, may come down to this one question: Who is Rick Santorum? - Wall St. Journal
Is he, as the former Pennsylvania senator avers, a consistent "full-spectrum" conservative, a pioneer on tough policy, and the only candidate who can provide a clear contrast with Barack Obama? Or is he, as his opponent Mitt Romney argues, little more than a Bush-era big-spender, a political insider?

Michiganders will make that choice Tuesday, as an estimated 1.7 million voters go to the polls. Mr. Romney may be Michigan's native son, but the state has become Mr. Santorum's to lose. His early-February victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri vaulted him to the top of national polls and to a double-digit lead by mid-February in the Great Lake State. Yet Mr. Santorum has been steadily losing ground and enters in a dead heat.
Romney, Santorum Represent Different White Americas - Michael Barone
With everything at stake, Santorum wings it - Byron York/Washington Examiner