What do Tuesday’s primary results in Alabama and Mississippi mean for Rick Santorum and the other candidates? NRO’s commentators weigh in with their thoughts. . . .
Hunter Baker: Rick Santorum had a good night on Super Tuesday. He had a better one on March 13, as he walked away with wins in both Alabama and Mississippi.
Jay Cost: I think the primary results . . . are culturally significant. . . . A Catholic just won the Alabama and Mississippi primaries.
David French: It’s still over. Romney will march on to victory, but the day when we unite as a party and take on Barack Obama is kicked just a bit further down the road.
Charlotte Hays: Republican voters are giving way to their inner Democrat: They want a candidate with whom they can fall in love, who whispers sweet things to them. Rick Santorum was that man.
Quin Hilyer: Rick Santorum has spent his whole career out-performing expectations. He did it again on Tuesday, with a big exclamation point.
Henry Olsen: But despite the blows he’s taking, Romney still looks to be well on course to winning the nomination by the end of the primary season in mid-June.
John J. Pitney Jr.: So is Gingrich going to withdraw? He is becoming a spoiler candidate. If his goal is to beat Romney, it would make sense for him to pull out and endorse Santorum.
Larry Sabato: Santorum is . . . making Romney face up to his severe shortcomings on the campaign trail before it is too late to do anything about them.
Mitt Romney recently tweeted a link to his Spotify account. Here are some of the songs that Mitt enjoys listening to while on the campaign trail. . . .
“I Am a Man of Constant Sorry,” by The Soggy Bottom Boys.
“Ring of Fire,” by Johnny Cash.
“Somebody Told Me,” by The Killers.
“Good Vibrations,” by The Beach Boys.
“Only You,” by the Commodores.
“As Good As I Once Was,” by Toby Keith.
“Born Free,” by Kid Rock.
“In Dreams,” by Roy Orbison.
“All-American Girl,” by Carrie Underwood.
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From Dick with Love
Love letters from Richard Nixon to his future wife, Patricia Ryan, went on display this week at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Scroll forward for excerpts . . . .
“Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you. Yet I have no feeling of selfish ownership or jealousy.”
“Let’s go for a long ride Sunday; let’s go to the mountains weekends; let’s read books in front of fires; most of all, let’s really grow together and find the happiness we know is ours.”
“Somehow on Tuesday there was something electric in the usually almost stifling air in Whittier. And now I know. An Irish gypsy who radiates all that is happy and beautiful was there.”
“She left behind her a note addressed to a struggling barrister who looks from a window and dreams. And in that note he found sunshine and flowers.”
“Someday let me see you again? In September? Maybe?”
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