The coup de grace to Mitt Romney's very bad night: He finished third in Minnesota.

[kpete]

Santorum Wins Minnesota Caucus, Romney Third
Ron Paul has strong second place showing
Updated: Wednesday, 08 Feb 2012, 8:09 AM CST
Published : Wednesday, 08 Feb 2012, 7:52 AM CST
by Tom Halden / FOX 9 News

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri shook up the Republican race for the White House by backing the relative underdog. Rick Santorum easily won the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses as well as the Missouri primary.

Santorum's win in Minnesota wasn't a huge surprise, as the most-recent polls showed him with a slim edge. But the final numbers show his supporters really turned out in their precincts and convinced their neighbors he's the best candidate.

His victory over Mitt Romney and the rest of the field in three states is turning-up the volume on his so far quiet campaign.

"You have found out, that on those issues, healthcare, the environment, cap and trade, Wall Street bailouts Mitt Romney has the same positions as Barack Obama and in fact would not be the best person to come up and fight for your voices for freedom in America," said Santorum.


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[rhett o rick]

1. Yes but does anyone think there is a chance for anyone other than Rmoney to win

the nomination? Except for Jeb maybe?

[rurallib]

2. As bad as Rmoney did, Gingrich did worse

I hear herman Cain may get back in.

[rhett o rick]

4. It doesnt matter. Unless the overlords are ready to run Jeb, Rmoney has it locked. nm

[Kingofalldems]

3. Here comes Jeb

[hifiguy]

5. Good grief.

I remember a time, back when the MN Repub party was moderate and sane, when none of these ignorant shitheels would have received more than 5% of the vote.

The Repiglican party is an open-air lunatic asylum.

[Brickbat]

6. I find myself nostalgic for the likes of Arne Carlson.

You know things are bad then.

[hifiguy]

7. Arne was not bad at all.

He's what MN Repubs used to be - moderately conservative fiscally and moderately liberal on social issues. The Jebusoids hated Arne passionately, you will remember, and their feelings were reciprocated in full by Arne.

Back in '04 Carlson and former Repub Gov. Elmer L. Anderson both endorsed John Kerry. I think former Repub US Senator Dave Durenberger did as well.

[Brickbat]

9. Yep, I remember that.

I was being jocular about things being "bad" by missing Arne. I just find myself laughing about it sometimes.

[geardaddy]

10. Yeah, but Arne was IR not R

Those were indeed the days of sane repubs.

[Quantess]

8. It's all because of his sweater vests.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. You're making the mistake of assuming that MN Republicans are sane

They got hijacked by a pernicious combination of megachurch evangelicals and ultraconservative Catholics a long time ago, with considerable help from AM radio.

All the sane people have gone over to the DFL or Independence parties.

[hifiguy]

12. I think the lion's share of the Independence party

are former moderate Repubs. All the sane people were purged from the Repigs or left in disgust over the last ten years. Only the psychopaths and the religulously insane are left in the MN Repig party and these results prove it.

[kestrel91316]

13. RW freaks. My young assistant (26) was asking me about President Eisenhower

the other day. I told her these days he would be labeled a commie soshalist and thrown out of the Republican party, probably tarred and feathered or even lynched.

My parents would have named me Dwight "kestrel'ssurname" if I had been a boy. He was an honorable man who wanted a better America for everyone, not just the 1%. He warned about the military-industrial complex and was dead on. These days he'd be called liberal even by Democrats.