It was Dr. Sivana that implied Santorum had endorsed Kirk, unless I misread what he wrote. I’ve been trying to locate that info online, but haven’t tracked it down. If he has not, that’s good, but it still doesn’t change his two prior endorsements of Specter and Slick Willard. The latter alone disqualifies him for any future office in my estimation (he claimed to speak to him for an hour on the phone, and that “cinched” it for him - talking to a world-class liar and master manipulator - so either Rick believes in supporting liberals is A-OK, or Rick is a stupid man who can be easily fooled. Either way, I think he has jumped the shark).
I would agree on that point, but simply note that I opposed Fred Thompson in the primary for similar reasons, his track record of vocally supporting RINOs in primary elections (McCain over Bush, Chaffee over Laffey, Simmons over Schiff, etc.) because the beltway crowd wanted them. Your excuse is the past was it's okay because Fred was simply a patriotic guy "trying to help the Republicans maintain a majority". How's that any different from the Santorum apologists on this thread are say? Basically it's -- Gee whiz, Rick only supported Specter because he was polling best against the Dems and Rick, being the good Republican he was, wanted to make sure the seat stayed in GOP hands so they could keep the majority".
I agree that Romney is a slick talking RINO but I'm with the majority of freepers who feel McCain is even worse than Romney, and Chafee is even worse than Specter. Fred did the exact same thing for Chafee that Santorum did for Specter, he quite vocally stumped for him in the primary over a real Republican, and mislead GOP voters to believe that the RINO scumbag was "agrees with me on most issues" and is "with us when it matters"
On the one hand you pat Fred on the back for "keeping TN's Senate seats in GOP hands", on the other hand you constantly decry how both of TN's senators are now squishy borderline RINOs. You can't have it both ways.
You do seem to always hold your hero Fred to a different standard than you hold all other GOP senators. What's the difference between Santorum's support of RINOs, and Fred's? I can't see any.