Chacha, you're right that Santorum will energize the voters, but not the way you would hope.

I *promise* you that he'll be portrayed as a religious zealot, probably more than he deserves. Everything that contributed to his huge loss in PA will be brought up as though it were an instruction manual on how to defeat him.

The Republicans need people like me and most of the people I know - former Republicans who don't like the extreme right turn the party took in response to the Clinton Administration. And nominating Santorum *guarantees* I'll vote for Obama.

The part that gets me about all this is the way they (the GOP) invoke Reagan's name like a saint and operate in a way that was WAY out of line with Reagan (a master of communication and deal making). If they actually look at Reagan's record without Reagan's name on it, they'd call him a flaming liberal bent on destroying America.