“there was good reason he was sent packing by the voters of this state”
No there wasn’t. He was targeted by acorn. HUGE. They threw everything at him including the kitchen sink and most of it was manufactured. PA was controlled by fast eddie rendell and his dem machine...which also controlled the state’s gop, lousy, stinking traitors that they are. You know, the same gop leadership that backed murtha?
They refused to fund Santorum, gave him no support at all, and the conservatives who blamed him for specter stayed home.
He did not want to endorse specter in the first place. He WOULD have endorsed Toomey, but bush, who just happened to be president at the time, (and head of the Republican party,) wanted specter and personally put an awful lot of pressure on Rick.
Toomey could still have won regardless, except for the FACT that the dem unions, rendell’s machine, got out the vote for specter.
To blame Santorum fo Toomey’s loss is pathetic. If you know Pennsylvania, then you know darn well that Santorum’s victories here were absolute miracles because Phildelphia is way too powerful in this state and the thug machine WILL roll.
There is a lot more to Santorum. He stood for his principles even when it was not politically popular to do so.
And anyone who knows anything about the Terri Schiavo case should ALSO know that Rick Santorum was absolutely front and center putting his career on the line to save her life.
Santorum is no milquetoast. He defended marriage against the gay insurgency. He spoke out vehemently against overturning the Texas sodomy laws for which he took intense abuse from the left and all its media.
He did initiate pork spending for PA until pork became a lethal weapon for blackmail. When Jim DeMint called for an end to it, Santorum signed the no pork pledge and that ceased to exist.
Rich Santorum did NOT deserve lose. Not then, and not now.
See #28
Excuse me,
You are blaming ACORN for Santorum’s loss? Really? Incorrect but interesting.
Let me ask you this, since acorn attacking santorum is why he was evicerated..
What makes you think he’s going to face anything different if he’s the nominee?? And if he couldn’t handle the attacks in his last election cycle and win, that he will somehow do so this time, when the stakes are higher and the money spent to attack him will be larger?
Your conclusions on why Santorum lost are completely wrong IMHO, but even assuming they are right, you are not making a strong argument that he can win a national campaign, in fact, based on your version of things, its a strong argument that he can’t.