The GOP establishment is in full freakout mode over the continued rise of Rick Santorum in the polls, and the threat to the inevitable candidacy of the choice of the establishment, Willard Mitt Rmoney (sic).<\/p>\n
\nRepublicans are staring down the increasingly real possibility that Rick Santorum could snatch the presidential nomination away from Mitt Romney and with it any idea that they could mount serious opposition to President Obama in the fall.<\/p>\n
As a result, many have started to hit the panic button, and they\u2019re doing so in a way you probably wouldn\u2019t have expected from the GOP, which still counts evangelicals among its strongest and most reliable base vote. Nevertheless, the freakout is evident from the Romney-allied Drudge Report homepage right through to radio host Laura Ingraham\u2019s national airwaves.<\/p>\n
Rick Santorum, conservatives and his opponents started to say Tuesday, is just too dang extreme.
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\nThe Drudge Report\u2019s powerful homepage banner spent a full day blasting out a 2008 Santorum speech at Ave Maria University in Florida in which the former Pennsylvania Senator told the crowd that Satan is trying to destroy the US. Drudge sold the story as \u201cdeveloping\u201d, but Right Wing Watch had pretty much the whole thing reported last week. <\/p>\n