Rick Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

At the Los Angeles Times, "Santorum suspending presidential campaign: Decision clears path for Romney to become the GOP nominee."

Santorum's campaign represented the great hope of  "full-spectrum conservatives" in 2012, and his exit will leave a mark on the general election campaign, as social issues and working class concerns will continue to resonate with the electorate into the fall.

The Other McCain has updates, "SANTORUM DROPS OUT."

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin writes, "Santorum suspends campaign, but “we are not done fighting” to defeat Obama" (via Memeorandum and The Hill):

Rick Santorum fought hard, he fought well, and he gave voice to a large contingent of grass-roots conservative activists across the country who wanted a candidate who lived the values he preached. He held Mitt Romney’s feet to the fire on health care, challenged Newt Gingrich’s green flirtations and past support for the individual mandate, and took on Ron Paul’s foreign policy extremism. His presence improved everyone else’s game — and that will serve the GOP ticket well this fall, whoever ends up on it.