Josh Marshall (TPM) tweets: "GOP movers and shakers: Crap, Santorum's nuts."

[highplainsdem]

http://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/172178649024446464

Josh Marshall @joshtpm

GOP movers and shakers: Crap, Santorum's nuts. http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/aooogah-conservatives-start-to-sound-the-alarm-over-rick-santorums-extremism.php via @TPM

10:39 PM - 21 Feb 12

From the TPM article he links to:

"AWOOOGAH!!! Conservatives Start To Sound The Alarm Over Rick Santorum’s Extremism"

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/aooogah-conservatives-start-to-sound-the-alarm-over-rick-santorums-extremism.php

Republicans 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.

As a result, many have started to hit the panic button, and they’re doing so in a way you probably wouldn’t 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’s national airwaves.

Rick Santorum, conservatives and his opponents started to say Tuesday, is just too dang extreme.

The key bullets from Tuesday, when the story really started to emerge:

-snip-

[Jim Lane]

1. If Santorum DOESN'T get the nomination, I hope the social conservatives are really ticked off.

Many of the fundies are uneasy about voting for a Mormon anyway. If, on top of that, they get the impression that the pro-Romney establishment was picking on Santorum -- especially that he was being picked on for being too conservative -- a good number of them might stay home or vote third party.

[jsmirman]

2. Cue Benny Hill

I'll wait until December to know how I feel, but right now this is like shit I couldn't even dream up

[Bruce Wayne]

5. Wacky sax

But anti-sex

[FSogol]

6. Exactly what I thought about.

Men in white coats and hats with a man-sized butterfly net chasing the GOP candidates around while that theme plays.

[tanyev]

3. Heh.

Best GOP primary I've ever witnessed.

[ProSense]

4. The GOP

primary is a parade of nuts funded by a few wealthy people.

[Canuckistanian]

7. I love this from the comments

"A conservative knows what "reactionary" means? Without looking in a mirror? Will wonders never cease."

[Skraxx]

8. And So It Goes

Created a monster there did ya? Whoda thunk it?

[maximusveritas]

9. The GOP movers and shakers have been trying to fix this for Romney

from day 1. They're going throw out everything at Santorum now, including the kitchen sink.