Charles Pierce over at Esquire sums up the GOP race nicely:

This is a speech that should disqualify Santorum not only from any serious consideration as president of the United States, it should be enough to send him so far into the fringes of American politics that he’d have to dial 1 to contact Fred Karger. Within this speech, there are a couple of dozen potential attack ads for any candidate willing to run against Santorum on the Not Insane, Not A Dick platform. This is a speech that has presented Willard Romney with an entire school of very big fish in very small barrels. But he has put himself into a position where he cannot defend the actual science of global warming. He cannot plausibly defend the facts behind the history of the country. He cannot plausibly defend even in a pale and nervous fashion the privacy rights of 51 percent of the American population. But, because of the candidate he’s made of himself, Romney cannot plausibly stand for reason, or even for sanity.

This is your democracy, America. Cherish it.