In Minnesota, where Paul nabbed 27 percent of the caucus vote, the Paul campaign estimates that 75 percent of the current delegates are Paul supporters. In Colorado, where Paul got 12 percent of the vote, 50 percent of the delegates are Paul supporters. Now delegates face elimination rounds, so it’s unclear if the Paul campaign will be successful or not in maintaining these percentages. But the campaign is hoping to pull it off.

"Appearing on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, Foster Friess, the main donor to the Super PAC backing Rick Santorum’s presidential bid, dismissed the controversy surrounding President Obama’s new birth control rule by suggesting that women should just keep their legs shut. Asked if he worried that Santorum’s Puritanical views on sex and social issues could hurt the candidate in the general election, Friess offered a more home-spun family planning scheme:

FRIESS: On this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so inexpensive. 'You know, back in my days, they used Baer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly."'

As discussed elsewhere, the more that Republicans want to go to the mattresses on contraception, as opposed to religious freedom or mandate issues the more likely they will be to lose in the fall.

That snapshot of the all-male "witness" table at that House hearing on Birth Control? Bad politics.

First of all, who the F says "gals"?? No matter the context, unless you're in a 1940s musical, it's condescending. Secondly, really? Bayer aspirin between the knees in "your day"? You're 52 YEARS OLD! And I'm pretty sure that when you graduated from college in 1980, I'm pretty sure that the whole revolutionary concept of the Pill was over, for the rest of the world, anyway.

Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Rejects while Obsessing about Birth Control

http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/top-ten-...th-control.html

Actually, Foster Friess is 72 years old. And he's the one who made the remark, not Santorum. Although he does speak for the guy, so it's understandable that Santorum is getting the backlash.

I saw that, Ronnie. Santorum has become an Evangelical (not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as you're not a fanatic).

But you just gave me an idea. I'm going to speak with my own Parish Priest this weekend and get his opinion on Slick Rick. I'll let you know .

"One of the things with Senator Santorum, he's not even on every ballot. He won't even be on all the ballots across the country, including Virginia. There tends to be a basic level of the test of competence in running for president, the ability to get on the ballot everywhere to reflect on how you can govern as president. Senator Santorum has looked to his record as a consultant and everyone knows you don't hire a consultant to run your company. You interview a consultant, you take their advice, throw out half of it and then you turn to managers like Gov. Romney to get the work done and to choose what needs to be done."

Ronnie, it's actually called Cafeteria Catholicism

I know the term. I hear that mostly thrown by right-winger Catholics (and Evangelical Romanphiles) against the left-leaning members, when really is absolutely applies to both halves.

Reacting to suggestions that -- based on an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times in 2008 -- he would have allowed General Motors and Chrysler to be liquidated:

"I can't even listen to that. Of course I wouldn't have allowed them to be liquidated."

On the federal auto rescue:

"I didn't agree with the process. But the outcome has been wonderful. The companies are more competitive, profitable and they're adding jobs."

As Mitt Romney celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Rick Santorum campaigned in Ohio, blasting Romney for soliciting earmarks while heading up the games.

"One of Mitt Romney's greatest accomplishments, one of the things he talks about most is how he heroically showed up on the scene and bailed out and resolved the problems of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake City Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake games -- in an earmark," he said. "In an earmark for the Salt Lake Olympic Games."

"One of his strongest supporters, John McCain, called it potentially the worst boondoggle in earmark history," Santorum continued. "And now Governor Romney is suggesting, 'Oh Rick Santorum earmarked' as he requested almost half a billion dollars in earmarks as governor of Massachusetts to his federal congressmen and senators. Does the word hypocrisy come to mind?"

"The president has reached a new low in this country's history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before. If he doesn't want to call his imposition of his values a theology that's fine, but it is an imposition of his values over a church who has very clear theological reasons for opposing what the Obama administration is forcing on them."

Did any of you watch Rick Santorum on Face the Nation? He espoused opposition to amniocentesis and, get this, states running public schools. I'm telling you, this guy is the Catholic version of an evangelical who wants to use religion to run government.