Yesterday, Rick Santorum went about disrupting the narrative in the Republican battle for the Presidential nomination. Just about every pundit has been predicting an unbroken march to the nomination for Mitt Romney. Why?  Because he had the most money and the biggest organization.

Despite all of Romney’s advantages, a candidate with better conservative credentials, Rick Santorum, won all three contests in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri in a stunning reversal from the supposed narrative.

The inside-the-beltway pundits have been exposed as front-runners and my guess is that even tonight they will find reasons and excuses for the Santorum victories.

You can just hear them now: “Missouri was a beauty contest with no delegates at stake. Minnesota’s Republican Party is very conservative.” These two statements are true but how do they explain Colorado, a state that Romney was leading in and was expected to win?

In Missouri, Santorum won by a stunning 30% with 55% of the vote. In Minnesota he garnered 45% with Ron Paul in second at 27%. And in Colorado, he defeated Mitt Romney 45% to 35%, a convincing victory.

The Republicans across the country are starting to take a hard look at their four candidates and making some value judgments and comparisons to the current occupant of the Oval Office.

Mitt Romney may have a great deal of money and a great organization but he also has the albatross of Romneycare hanging around his neck. No matter how hard he has tried to explain it away, he is Tweedledee to Barack Obama’s Tweedledum on this issue.

In recent days, he has made several verbal gaffes that in the long term, if he has one, can be used to his advantage. When the Obama campaign takes them out of context, all that he needs to do is run the entire clip and expose them for playing dirty politics.

He hasn’t put forward anything innovative in the way of tax policy or economic fixes. His continual use of his business experience in the investment capital sector is beginning to wear thin. Consistancy of message is great, but Americans are looking for sizzle.

Newt Gingrich on the other hand is an idea-a-minute guy. He needs to moderate his message to several key points, not several hundred. We can all appreciate his creativity and imagination but he’s confusing the electorate.

The fact that he is on his third wife gives some in the religious right pause. If he can’t be constant in his personal relationships, how will he be constant in his political relationships.

Ron Paul is the anomaly in this group. He knows that the establishment Republicans will never allow him to be nominated. His base of support has remained undeterred in the face of near-certain defeat.

Why, you may ask? He sees his campaign not so much as that, but as amovement. He will continue to collect delegates to the point where he has enough to make an impact at the Republican convention.

Finally, we have Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania. He’s tall and looks like a President. He speaks forcefully. Missed in Gingrich’s debate performances, is the fact that Santorum is a very good debater in his own right. He has an amazing family narrative with a wonderfully supportive wife and six children, one of whom is very sick. He is a true conservative in a center-right country.

He’s a devout Roman Catholic at the time when his church and in fact, all churches are under attack by the secularists of the Obama administration. If he could add some money to this mix, he just might continue disrupting the narrative and give Mitt Romney a run for the Republican nomination. He now has what Bush 41 once called “Big Mo”. Now let’s see what he can do with it.