Can someone explain this logic to me?

[Torie]

Newt's raison d'etre is not to get Santorum nominated, and Santorum's raison d'etre is not to get Newt nominated. I tend to doubt either man really feels that strongly that the other one of them is really that preferable to Mittens. So neither of them, first Rick, and now Newt, had much motivation to just fall on their sword for "the cause."  I think that about sums it up.

[Torie]

Actually, I think the biggest thing that brought about the Santorum collapse was calling President Obama a snob. I know an awful lot of moderate voters who heard that and pretty much just crossed Santorum off their list of people they might end up voting for in March or in November.

I think it was more about resurrecting all those speeches Rick gave to Catholic audiences about the toxic societal effects of higher education and contraception as an anti-life concept and the disengagement of mainline Protestant churches from the Judeo-Christian ethic, given before he decided to run for President, which Rick then doubled down on. Rick if you are going to give these speeches, keep the darn cameras away is my best advice.