Santorum Reluctantly Endorses Romney

Piers Morgan put Rick Santorum on the spot last night and squeezed out an unenthusiastic endorsement of Mitt Romney:

MORGAN: You believe that Mitt Romney’s the right guy?

SANTORUM: I believe he’s the better — obviously I believed I was the better choice. But I’m not in the race anymore.

MORGAN: He has won the race. Is he therefor the right guy?

SANTORUM: Absolutely. He is the person that is going to go up
against Barack Obama. It’s pretty clear. We need to win this race.

MORGAN: Unless I’m mishearing things, you just endorsed Mitt
Romney.

SANTORUM: If that’s what you want to call it, you can
call it whatever you want.

First Read: “After reading that exchange and also seeing Gingrich stay in the race
probably a month too long (after not winning Alabama and Mississippi),
we have this question: Did both Santorum and Gingrich hold out too long?
What does Romney owe them now? Hope they enjoy speaking in the
afternoon in Tampa.”