Fox News
Expand
Browse All Video
Watch Live

You're watching...

Hume: Why Santorum won't quit

Details

  • Description

    The longest of long shots is running on emotion

  • Duration 2:34
  • Date

Clips

Also in this playlist...

Brit Hume's Commentary

Auto-advance: ON

Auto-advance
View All

Transcript

This transcript is automatically generated

Games as you heard and Steve's peace.

Each day brings more calls for Santorum to get out of the race.

Senior political analyst for -- has some thoughts and I don't watch Santorum is not budget could be Brit -- welcome back thank you.

The odds against Rick Santorum are now extremely long -- -- still longer tomorrow.

But he can be forgiven if things don't look the same to him as they made to the rest of us.

He is in a place very few politicians ever ago he began this race as the longest of long shots.

As -- nearly forgotten ex senator who had lost his last senate race by an historic margin.

He had almost no money and was forced to camp in the state of Iowa and hope that by sheer perseverance and a strong conservative message.

He could win this state and catapult himself into contention.

He did it.

As Bachmann Cain -- Gingrich and even Donald Trump at various moments shot by him to take the lead he plotted on.

Now they are all out of the running and he remains having done more with less than perhaps any candidate in the modern history of his party.

When I saw him here at fox the other day he seem more alive than I've ever seen his face was radiant and while he may have been exhausted he was clearly also exhilarated.

Know you send him hey buddy you may have gone farther than anyone thought she could but it's time to quit.

To say that is to fail to recognize a core truth about politics money may be the proverbial mother's milk.

But there's an agreed at least as important and that's emotion as long as the crowd still cheer and there's still a chance.

Santorum is in no danger of running out of that -- With this Santorum campaign today started running -- new ad against Mitt Romney.

And this is part of that.

And what I told you he dramatically raise taxes are taxpayers with a one million dollar shortfall.

One more thing.

What I told you man I'm talking about it isn't -- It's a long -- it's it's a very tough bad run in Wisconsin a swing state.

Assuming Romney becomes the nominee.

Is there a point -- which Rick Santorum kind of goes over the line in the party.

Being welcomed staying on as long -- hats.

I think there's a danger that -- -- consider again how this looks to him.

He was an absolute dead man Republican Party -- his loss in Pennsylvania.

And he is look how far he's come and look at with how little and how prominently now is and how well known -- He has revived his career I'm sure in his own imagination within the party and I think really -- there is -- -- suggested danger.

But to in his mind he's way ahead our print.

Load More