Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Santorum Out

That’s it for Rick:

Rick Santorum suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party’s conservative standard-bearer in the fall.

“We made a decision over the weekend, that while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign today, we are not done fighting,” Mr. Santorum said.

Mr. Santorum made the announcement at a stop in his home state of Pennsylvania after a weekend in which he tended to his three-year-old daughter, Bella, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia.

I’m actually glad that Mr. Santorum was in the race and that he managed to get as far as he did. I never thought for a moment that he would get the Republican nomination, much less win the election, but seeing how far he got tells us that just because we elect a center-left president every now and then, we should never forget that there remains a seething and bitter bloc who despise other people based on superstition and ignorance. And they vote.