Santorum certainly gave it a serious effort, and spoke for a real segment of the Republican electorate. Oddly, Roman Catholic Santorum led the evangelical, social conservative segment of the party, an alignment nobody would have predicted in the Reagan era.
Add this Santorum suspension to the "I will support Romney if he's nominated" comments made by Gingrich over the weekend and the GOP primary race is essentially over. Now the main bout begins - Romney vs. Obama - for the title of President, decision in November.
Historians will judge whether the hard-fought multi-candidate GOP primary made candidate Romney stronger or weaker. COTTonLINE hopes the answer is "stronger."
The point of the November exercise is to replace Obama. It is unlikely Romney will be a worse president than Obama.
