Analysis: Romney losses show disgruntled GOP base

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's losses in Alabama and Mississippi underscore a stark reality: The core of his party does not want him.

And that lingering conservative dissatisfaction - on display Tuesday night - threatens to follow Romney into a general election matchup against a Democratic president whose ability to inspire his base is not in question.

Romney's huge lead in the race for delegates to this summer's GOP nominating convention seemed forgotten for a night as Rick Santorum reveled in twin victories handed to him by conservatives and evangelicals who dominate the Republican electorate in the party's only remaining regional stronghold - the South.

Santorum's success and Romney's failure exposed deep divisions within a party torn between a conservative base that's looking for a candidate who is pure on GOP orthodoxy and the rest of the party, which is looking for a nominee able to beat President Barack Obama. Tuesday's outcomes also virtually ensure the increasingly nasty slog toward the Republican presidential nomination will consume even more of Romney's time, energy and money when he'd rather be focused solely on the general election, and Obama.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Santorum is Ralph Nadering the Republican Party nt

[LetTimmySmoke]

2. The religious under-$50k/yr voters know whats up.

In a Romney presidency, Wall St. will be riding up front while they get strapped to the roof of the car.

[LisaL]

3. And what are they going to do in Santorum presidency?

[Aerows]

4. Figure out a way

To cover up the spy cameras that get installed in their bedrooms.

[LisaL]

5. I am sure that being respectable republicans and all, they aren't doing anything in those bedrooms

they aren't supposed to.