We may have The Great Conservative Hope here.

"Just three months ago, the list of remaining contenders would have sounded absurd. Mitt Romney is no surprise and neither is Ron Paul, who will be pushing his way into the conversation all the way until the Aug. 27 Republican convention.

But how amazing that former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, two seeming remnants of a bygone political era who were dragging along in the single digits at the beginning of October, would end up as the remaining combatants in the GOP's primary within a primary to be the "Not Romney" candidate."
    *Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/04/iowa-culls-gop-field/#ixzz1iVj6lo8g