FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
Rick Santorum says he can win swing states, but he lost a third Senate term in his own Pennsylvania by a whopping 18-point margin.
A stunning defeat for a two-term incumbent.
Santorum lost almost every region in Pennsylvania and almost every demographic group - including blue collar workers.
Supporters say Santorum lost the 2006 race due to a tough political climate for Republicans: President George W. Bush was unpopular, as was the Iraq war.
But there was more than that to Santorum's landslide loss - a lot more.
And if Mitt Romney wants to defeat Rick Santorum - who is the current flavor of the month in the polls - all he has to do is read some of this stuff aloud at campaign stops:
In 2006, Santorum faced charges of hypocrisy for living in Virginia with his family while a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and allowing a Pennsylvania school to pay for his children's online education.
He blamed "radical feminists" for forcing women to work and questioned the need for two-working-parent households. Try explaining that to Americans struggling to make ends meet.
Santorum has compared homosexuality to incest and polygamy and suggested that Boston liberals were to blame for the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. Can you spell wacko?
Santorum also inserted himself into the Terri Schiavo case - where some members of the government thought it was their job, not the family's, to decide if a brain-damaged woman should have her feeding tube removed. It was a disgrace.
Here’s my question to you: Does Rick Santorum have electability issues if he lost his Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat by 18 points?
Interested to know which ones made it on air?
Carol:
Rick Santorum has no appeal for intelligent women. He'll never get my vote. I'm a religious person, but I don't have any faith in a Bible-thumping politician. The photo of him with the pastors laying hands on him was just plain creepy. His views on women are ignorant and insulting.
M.:
An empty cab arrived… Rick Santorum got out.
Terri on Facebook:
He has electability issues because he's not running in the 17th century. His stance on women is positively archaic, from health care to the military to working to birth control, and beyond. Pennsylvania said the same thing America says: NO.
S. in Virginia:
The electability factor will weigh on "Can the new guy have a chance at making my existing conditions better?" The economy will be decide who wins more so than the candidate's social stances. The majority of those Americans who are displaced or see little future for their retirements will be the driving force to determine the next President.
Vic:
Depends. Did you like the Crusades?
Ken:
Nixon was vice president of the United States and when out of office, ran for governor of California and lost. The next time he ran for office, he ended up as president of the United States.
Gord in New Jersey:
Yes. As the standard bearer in the GOP's war against modern women, Rick Santorum is the epitome of "Father Knows Best" paternalism. Behind that cherubic smile is a 14th-century mind still struggling to come to grips with the Reformation.