I know how Rick Santorum can win the Republican nomination.
I'm not sharing any secrets with you I haven't already shared with the former senator from Pennsylvania.
It's really just a question of whether he will recognize the value of my advice and embrace it with the enthusiasm necessary to sell it to the American people.
By the way, if he doesn't, the same idea can be used by either Mitt Romney or possibly even Newt Gingrich to secure the nomination – so time is short.
Everyone can see that grass-roots Republican voters are not yet excited about any single candidate for president. As of today, Santorum is polling nationally ahead of Romney. Gingrich and Ron Paul follow. No one has a commanding lead, and primary and caucus victories have been split.
So what's the secret of breaking out?
It's coming up with the bold domestic economic plan virtually all Republicans, most independents and even a strong plurality of Democrats will embrace.
That plan, believe it or not, is essentially the Ron Paul plan – the only true, conservative economic agenda put forth by any of the remaining candidates.
Ron Paul alone has pledged to cut $1 trillion out of spending in his first year as president. It's without a doubt the best and simplest single proposal put forth by any candidate – vital to saving our nation from going off a cliff in 2013.
Some political "pragmatists" will say it's just not possible or realistic – that a president could never persuade Congress to do something so dramatic in such a short period of time.
It's that kind of thinking that will get Obama re-elected in 2012.
It is not only possible – it's 100 percent necessary and 100 percent doable.
All the next president has to do to make this happen is refuse to borrow any more money to fund government operations – forcing Washington to start living within its means immediately.
Yes, it will mean drastic cuts in spending, the biggest ever in the history of the country. But when Washington is spending $1.2 trillion more than it takes in, what choice do we have? None.
By the way, each House of Congress has the same authority to do this – even against the president's will. Most Americans don't realize House Republicans alone could have done this in 2011. They just didn't have the will.
Yet, according to every poll ever done on this question over the last two years, this is an immensely popular position – with around 80 percent Republican support, 70 percent independent support and close to 50 percent support from Democratic voters.
It's time for Rick Santorum to apply his genuinely conservative moral worldview and instincts into the world of economics. He can overcome his support for big-government programs during the George W. Bush era by fully embracing a conservative economic agenda now – admitting that the old model of borrow and spend is unsustainable any longer.
I'm convinced this position, clearly and boldly articulated, would propel him to the nomination and victory over Barack Obama in November.
Short of this, it's going to be a dogfight right up to the convention.
It's rare in political history that the right thing to do is also the popular thing to do. But this is one of those moments. No one else is talking about it – not in the Big Media, not even in conservative talk radio.
Will the media go crazy if a major Republican candidate advocates eliminating the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, Planned Parenthood funding, Obamacare funding, NPR and PBS subsidies, massive "entitlement programs" and foreign aid?
Yes, but that's exactly what the American people want to hear at a time such as this.