6-year headstart ain't nothin' to sneeze at . . .

Latest from the Romney campaign (Romney Camp Slams Santorum Over Organization - WSJ):

The Mitt Romney campaign seized on Rick Santorum’s failure to qualify for delegates in a handful of Super Tuesday states, saying he has flunked the test required to be the party’s nominee.

Of the 391 bound delegates up for grabs on Tuesday, Mr. Santorum will be ineligible for up to 16% of them, according to an analysis the Romney campaign distributed to reporters Saturday.

First, this criticism from Romney 2012 attorney Ben Ginsberg is ironic in light of their campaign's weaselly grab for one extra delegate in Michigan. But, I just love the "16%" figure, and the fact that Romney has been running for president for 6 years, longer than every other candidate but Lyndon Larouche (and Ron Paul, who has pined for the job since at least 1988 when he resigned from the GOP and ran the first time).

That being said, I will not deny that Mitt Romney's organization is impressive and that it reflects well on him. One thing that I couldn't help but observe from attending the Nashville/Belmont U. event on Wednesday night was that the Santorum campaign is unconventional and driven by ideas. The man was over an hour late; there was no upbeat music; the audience was packed with sitting-on-their-hands Ron Paul followers; there were no warm-up speakers or long introductions . . . it was just Rick Santorum, speaking for over an hour without notes and challenging the conventional wisdom that big government is better and that American Exceptionalism is blase. So, yes, Santorum's campaign is unconventional, but if and when he wins the nomination, I hope we'll be able to count on Ben Ginsberg's expert assistance . . .