Can you tell the difference?

Rick Santorum is taking a lot of heat right now. When comparing Obama and Romney, Santorum said that voters might as well keep what they have. The media is trumpeting this as an endorsement of Obama by Santorum; both Foxnews  and CNN have articles to this effect.

Which is just silly. In fact, it is little more than another example of how hard the media is working to make Romney the GOP candidate.  Seeing that Romney has historically held to the farthest left views of any GOP contender, liberals in the mainstream media look at Romney as the weakest GOP contender and the easiest for Obama to beat.  Establishment GOP'ers, blinded by their convictions that conservatism is both dead and undesirable, and despite all evidence that it was conservatives who gave Republicans control of the House in 2010, are convinced that Palin and not their choice of McCain cost them the 2008 election.

Taken in context, Santorum is merely pointing out the obvious: that there is not much difference in the views held by Romney and Obama. After all, imagine a Presidential debate between candidates Obama and Romney.

On Obamacare:

Obama: "Obamacare's a wonderful law, and before I say more, I want to thank Mr. Romney. Obamacare was modeled on Romneycare and even written by the same team."

Romney: "Er, thank you."

End of Obamacare as campaign issue.

On gay marriage:

Obama: "I want to thank Governor Romney for leading the way in issuing gay marriage licenses in Massachusetts even before the law required him to.

and on abortion:

Obama: "I'm not anti-abortion."

Romney: "I'm not anti-abortion."

End of values issues as campaign issue.

On gasoline prices:

Obama: "It's not my fault, it's Congress' fault, big oil's fault, wall street's fault, Bush's fault. And anyway, I'm okay with higher gas prices, just as Governor Romney said back when he was governor."

Romney: "Er, yes I did, but I was governor then."

Obama: "Yes, you were governor, I said that. Don't repeat everything I say."

End of energy costs as a campaign issue.

And that is the point Santorum is trying to drive home, and that the media is trying hard to make the voters miss. About the only thing Romney can campaign on is his balancing the state budget without raising taxes. Which he did, but by raising state fees substantially instead. Whoopee; sounds like a winner.

Just what is it that the GOP stratagists see in Romney that makes him an "electable" candidate when he is already drawing record low turnouts to Presidential caucuses? Santorum is simply asking- between Obama and Romney, can you tell the difference?