or learn to live with him anyway. There was this moment, just before Michigan, when it seemed possible to avert a Romney nomination. That doesn’t mean that we would have gotten a Santorum nomination. If Santorum had won Michigan, it is possible that Romney’s’s establishment support and his electability/competence supporters would have abandoned him and opened the way for a late entrant and a contested convention. If Romney couldn’t beat Santorum in Romney’s home state, then Romney would be neither all that competent nor all that electable would he? But Santorum couldn’t avoid one pointless and self-destructive culture war fight after another. He could not control his political vices, and so we have Romney.
