“I will not vote for him if he’s the nominee,” Osborne pledged, as Santorum’s face filled the television set in his living room. “For him, there’s one right answer that is given by God that you have to obey. You’re not allowed to talk about negotiating or compromising. It’s insane.”
It’s a sentiment that was echoed repeatedly by the crowds of supporters at Romney’s recent campaign swing through Michigan.
Mark Mailloux, a Romney rally-goer from Fenton, MI who works in the health care field, called Santorum the latest star in a rotating cast of “conservative nutjobs… First it was Bachmann, then whats-his-face from Texas, and right on down the road.”
His wife Joan agreed: “I don’t want a nominee clear over by the Tea Party. I want a moderate, responsible Republican. Santorum tells us on television that he’s got these big economic plans and then he doesn’t tell us a darn thing about them,” she said, complaining that he spends too much time attacking his opponents and sermonizing on social issues.
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