Santorum. Yuck. Or How to make the GOP love Romney without really trying.

Rick Santorum. Huh. Don’t like it. I knew we could count on the Iowa caucuses to give us a result that will have little to no real value when it comes to nominating the Republican Presidential candidate. What it does emphasize is that while no one likes Romney, they’re still going to give him the nomination anyway. He did after all manage to win in Iowa. Sure, Santorum will play the role of Mike Huckabee to Romney’s John McCain, but in the end, we’ll be watching Romney debate Obama, not the frothy Santorum.

Despite all this, the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal is highlighting the fact that Santorum is blowing up in the polls of New Hampshire. Santorum has jumped from 3% to 11% in the latest polling while Romney has slipped down from 43% to 40%. 15% are undecided, so even if they all jump on the Santorum bandwagon, he still won’t have enough votes to beat Romney.

Let’s just face facts here, Republicans. You’re stuck with Romney. You can flirt with the other candidates, you can listen to Santorum’s promises of outlawing birth control, gay marriage, and forcing women to stay home (doesn’t that sound like a fun society), and you can dream away about having a perfect conservative in your White House. The reality is, you’re married to Romney. Yes, he’s only recently made the changes you needed him to make in order to make it work with you, but he’s trying really hard. He’s stuck to those changes for the last five years. You haven’t heard nary a word from him about all those past flings with universal health care and abortion rights. So suck it up. Accept him into your life. Embrace the marriage that you have because courting someone like Santorum will just end in a yucky mess that no one wants to see.