would Santorum be Tougher to beat in a GE than Romney ?

[Warren DeMontague]

21. No, because the "values voters" are a fringe minority.

The economic policies of the GOP are way more popular than the wingnut wack-a-doo Dominionist Godbagger shit. Your average meat-n-potatoes American doesn't want to outlaw birth control, doesn't hate gay people, but offer him or her a tax cut that sounds like free money, and they're all over it.

Where the conventional wisdom poo-bahs have gotten it wrong for years, they've overestimated the strength of the authoritarian godbaggers and poo-pooh'ed the socially libertarian majority that wants to do things like end the drug war.

Our party would do better if we would combine a spirited defense and advocacy for sane solid economic safety net and infrastructure issues- a liveable min. wage, a SPHC system, massive domestic investment in repairing and upgrading everything about our nation- combining that with a REAL socially (small l) libertarian agenda of ending the drug war, legalizing and taxing marijuana, demanding full marriage equality for LGBT citizens, unapologetically supporting full reproductive freedom, and shoring up the bill of rights in the areas it has been weakened in the past decades....

But regardless, Santorum would get his ass kicked in the GE. The majority of Americans are pro-choice, and no matter how fucking Howdy Doody friendly he makes himself sound, his Godbagger shit wouldn't go over well at all.