In case you missed it, Rick Santorum won another primary the other night in the Deep South — this time in Louisiana by 22 percentage points (49-27), the largest margin he's had over GOP rival Mitt Romney in any of his 11 primary victories.
His win there came after he had to walk back yet another provocative statement, however — that one being that Republicans "might as well" stay with President Obama over "taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future," referring to Mr. Romney. A day later he issued a statement saying he would "never" vote for Barack Obama, and to suggest otherwise was simply "preposterous."
Flash forward to Sunday night in Franksville, Wisconsin, where Santorum said that Romney's ties to universal health care would make him the “worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama” in the general election.
But when New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny asked Santorum afterward if he believed that Romney was the worst Republican to run in the general election, the Christian conservative went apoplectic, saying that he was referring to Romney's health care bill, and how that that made him unworthy to run against Obamacare. He accused the Times scribe of distorting his words — and of spreading "bullshit."
This article appears in Mar 22-28, 2012.

