I'll get your children where you can't protect them: Their dreams!

Former presidential candidate and Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and his wife, Karen, participated on a conference call last night. They were joined, Santorum claims, by more than 4,000 supporters. He thanked those supporters for his dark-horse campaign, asked for contributions to pay off his campaign debt—and, oh yeah, he didn’t endorse Mitt Romney.

Today, he’s sending out another email, again asking for money—and again not endorsing Mitt Romney.

“As I said last evening I am very excited about the possibilities for what we can continue to accomplish together and I am not backing down from the fight for our conservative ideals,” he writes. “We must and will focus on energizing conservatives so our values are reflected in our Party platform and our national discourse. If we are going to defeat Barack Obama and restore our conservative principles to government we must work together or we will never succeed.”

He continued, saying “we” have to make sure the American dream stays a reality and “does not wither away” under Obama, noting he fought for both struggling families and the unborn.

Santorum has suspended his campaign, and, thus has not released his 267 delegates to any candidate. The emails and public statements suggest that he will be open to Mitt Romney—whom he once stated was “uniquely unqualified” for the 2012 presidential race because of his former support for national healthcare—if and when he believes Mitt Romney will stand for the same social conservative values Santorum himself came to represent in the Republican field. A large moment in the 2008 campaign came when then-New York Senator Hillary Clinton announced her state’s delegates would go to then-candidate Barack Obama at the Denver convention, signifying party unity to elect a Democrat that year. Santorum may be waiting for a similar moment to occur.