WASHINGTON, DC — Rick Santorum was asked point blank, if you fail to amass the delegates needed to wil the nomination outright will you press for a brokered convention in order to block Mitt Romney .
Santorum refused to say he would step aside and instead said that if he failed to amass the critical amount of delegates it mean that Mitt would have failed also.
He said,
“Our calculation of the delegate count is very different than what’s out there. We’re in this to win.”
Santorum pointed out that Romney has a massive money lead on his competitors and he proffered that if Romney can’t nail down the nomination with that advantage than what will happen when he faces President Obama?
“He’s not going to have those overwhelming advantages in the general election,” Santorum said.
Senator Santorum rejected outright the assertion that because Romney was CEO of Bain Capital it has made him ready to be President of the United States.
Santorum struck a similar tone on ABC’s “This Week.”
“We can’t nominate such a weak candidate. I’d love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama. He’s hiding behind the billionaires who are running his super PAC and spending an outrageous amount of money. The more I look at the record of Gov. Romney and match it up against Barack Obama, I feel like I am doing a training run for the general election. The same issues I’m out there campaigning on against Governor Romney are the same issues I’m going to campaign against Barack Obama on.”
Do you agree with Rick Santorum about Mitt Romney ? Is Romney not prepared to be President?
