The possibility of Santorum joining Romney's campaign as VP crossed my mind a few days back, and I decided to run it by the DK hive-mind. The current primary campaign looks like (from my perspective) a gorgeous, slow-motion trainwreck, that's doing great work for the Obama 2012 campaign. Romney and Santorum are competing to win the right-wing base by affirming their commitment to initiatives that are losers in a general campaign, from contraception to immigration to gay rights to health care to social security to plutocracy. They're throwing red meat to the wolves of the right, apparently unaware that this spectacle is being observed by a general public that is increasingly unimpressed and offended.
All that Obama has to do is hold the center and get support from the left, and the Republican primary is doing all the work for him. Whichever candidate wins the primary will already be weakened, and unable to pivot effectively to the center. It's enough to make me feel complacent, which I never trust. Which is why I started wondering about Romney and Santorum joining forces...