SBC's Richard Land Calls On Santorum To Drop Out And Support Mitt Romney

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Here.

Rick Santorum, who rose in the polls thanks to enthusiastic support from Christian conservatives, faced pressure Sunday from a key Republican evangelical to end his increasingly long-shot White House bid.

Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention urged him to abandon the race and throw his support to frontrunner Mitt Romney to increase Republicans' chances of defeating Barack Obama in November.

"Rick's a good friend. I like Rick a lot," Land told CBS "Face the Nation" program on Sunday.

But, Land said, "as his friend I would say to him, 'you know, you ought to seriously consider leaving the race now.'"...

Yeah, this is a BIG deal.

[CQUIRK]

The title needs to be fixed please

[thesometimesaint]

If Santorum loses Pennsylvania he will probably have to rethink his position. But he has also repeatedly claimed that he will stay in to the convention. We'll just have to WAFO.

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

If Santorum loses Pennsylvania he will probably have to rethink his position. But he has also repeatedly claimed that he will stay in to the convention. We'll just have to WAFO.

Nobody loses their home State. At least I have never heard of it happening.

[LDSGuy]

Al Gore lost Tennessee.

[Saints Alive]

Al Gore lost Tennessee.

I think PaPa was referring to primary elections

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

I think PaPa was referring to primary elections

Correct.

[thesometimesaint]

While anything can happen in the Primaries Santorum has a small lead over Romney, 30 percent to 28 percent, within the poll's 4.2 percent margin of error in Pennsylvania right now. I'm not counting him out until the convention.

[thesometimesaint]

BREAKING....Santorum bows out.

[Gohan]

Looks like something worked, although I think it was more to do with the rising possibility of losing in PA and the resurgence of his daughter's illness than anything...

[LDSGuy]

I think PaPa was referring to primary elections

I was referring to just in general, but not as in the general election.

[Garden Girl]

I understand that Santorum has suspended his campaign... and that in his bow-out announcement he didn't mention one word about Romney. It will be interesting to see what he does... my sis said that Romney was gracious and showed class in his response to the press when asked about Santorum...

GG

[Saints Alive]

I suspect his suspended campaign has mor to do with his daughters health than anything. My prayers are with him and his family.

[BCSpace]

and that in his bow-out announcement he didn't mention one word about Romney

I'm guessing he's giving himself another chance to run next time. Supporting Romney now makes him look bad if Romney loses the presidential election. Continuing to fight Romney now would further anger potential future supporters. I'm hoping that, if he truely cares about the outcome of this election, he'll fully support Romney anyway.

[Zakuska]

Oh snap! The Bible belt just imploded!

[CQUIRK]

The anti-Romney crowd should've gone with Ron Paul, IMO, will they do so now?

But anyways, I can certainly see most of the EV voting block to began to slowly coalesce around Romney now