https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/17/santorum-gop-donors-dont-know-the-first-thing-about-what-it-takes-to-win/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 12:17:26 -0400<![CDATA[In accounting for the GOP’s loss, Santorum emphasized Romney’s inherent limitations as the GOP standard-bearer. “He ran the campaign he could,” Santorum tells National Review Online. That was a campaign focused primarily on the economy, rather than on the three major issues that fueled the tea-party movement in the wake of President Obama’s election and drove voters to the polls in 2010: Wall Street bailouts, Obamacare, and cap and trade. As the founder of Bain Capital, and having instituted a universal health-care program and proposed joining a carbon-fee regime as governor of Massachusetts, Romney was poorly positioned to capitalize. &#8230;]]>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:25:38 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/17/santorum-gop-donors-dont-know-the-first-thing-about-what-it-takes-to-win-n97551