Conservative News--4.11.12

The Upside for Social Conservatives of Rick Santorum's Withdrawal Daily Beast by Jesse Singal Apr 11, 2012 7:14 AM EDT Santorum's exit may be painful for his fans, but at least it prolongs the delusion among them and other social conservatives that what ails the GOP is a lack of ideological purity. Maybe they don't know it. See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast

Will social conservatives rally around Romney? CBS News (Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) (CBS News) With his exit from the Republican primary, Rick Santorum leaves behind a socially conservative base that has yet to warm up to Mitt Romney, now the all-but-inevitable Republican presidential nominee. See all stories on this topic » CBS News

Obama campaign releases video on Romney's 'severely conservative' greatest hits Washington Post (blog) The Obama campaign today debuts a new Web video compiling clips of the many things Romney has said on the campaign trail while appealing to conservatives for their votes, reinforcing Romney's claim that he was a "severely conservative" governor of ... See all stories on this topic »

Social conservatives don't rush to Romney after Santorum news CNN International By Paul Steinhauser, CNN Political Editor Rick Santorum was a hit with many conservative voters. Will they move to Mitt Romney or opt out? (CNN) -- Some leading social conservative groups are praising Rick Santorum following his suspension of his ... See all stories on this topic »

Mitt Romney would govern as a conservative Politico Conservatives shouldn't fret about the politics of their nearly-presumptive nominee. Mitt Romney will most certainly govern as one of them. He's guaranteed to — for the exact reason they think he won't. If Romney really is the political animal his ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

Conservatives to Romney: Don't Take Us for Granted Wall Street Journal (blog) By Elizabeth Williamson and Naftali Bendavid Rick Santorum's exit from the Republican presidential race removes the man most closely aligned to conservative evangelicals from the field. So where will they turn? In remarks after Mr. Santorum's ... See all stories on this topic »

Sex, Teens and Risk: Conservatives Have It Wrong Huffington Post (blog) Conservative Republicans in Tennessee just passed a bill in the Senate mandating teaching sexual abstinence. The bill makes it "a cause of action" for any teacher or organization to "promote gateway sexual activity or demonstrate sexual activity" to ... See all stories on this topic »

GOP Loses a Passionate Conservative With Rick Santorum's Exit Daily Beast As Santorum showed during his speech earlier, and Romney reinforced later, the GOP field has lost something very important with Santorum's departure—a passionate conservative who speaks from the heart, talking not only about his own life, but the ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Beast

Santorum reflects on family, 'extremist' label with Dobson CNN (blog) The revelations were made at an event with James Dobson, founder of the conservative group Focus on the Family, who was also an early Santorum supporter. After Santorum declared earlier in the day his White House run was "over," it was inevitable the ... See all stories on this topic »

Santorum says he was the only true social conservative in the race Los Angeles Times Hours after dropping out of the presidential race, Rick Santorum said Tuesday night that he was the sole candidate in the GOP field who had been willing to go beyond a perfunctory commitment to socially conservative causes. Though the other candidates ... See all stories on this topic »