More than 10,000 activists will descend on Washington this week for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Every presidential candidate, except Ron Paul, will speak in the convention’s main hall Friday. But no candidate is more in need of a big positive reaction from the crowd, and a victory in the CPAC straw poll, than Rick Santorum.
We already know that Mitt Romney is not the first choice of conservative activists. The entrance polling from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida all showed that Romney is weakest among the Republican party’s most conservative voters. Whether he likes it or not, Romney is the establishment candidate who will depend on money and infrastructure to carry him to the nomination. His losses in Colorado, Missouri, and Minnesota proved how weak a candidate he would be without those advantages.
