The never-ending Mitt Romney beatdown of Rick Santorum continues with the pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future (and Destroy Everyone Else’s) running this ad in Wisconsin (and outspending Santorum anywhere from 6-1 to 10-1):

That thoroughly distorts Santorum’s quote about the unemployment rate, but hey, why get technical about it at this stage of the race.

Coincidentally, a fundraising mailer for Santorum poured into the Campaign Outsider mailbag this week, with this alarum on the front of the envelope:

TIME SENSITIVE: LAST CHANCE FOR CONSERVATIVES

PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY

The letter itself began this way:

Dear True-Believing Conservative,

I’m writing you to sound an urgent alarm:

IT’S “NOW OR NEVER” TIME FOR CONSERVATIVES.

If you want a  consistent, never-flip-flops, battle-tested conservative to be the Republican nominee to face Barack Obama in 2012, then you need to act now.

There’s zero time to waste.

And zero chance Santorum will be that Republican nominee.

But if underlines were dollars, he’d be sitting pretty.