Ohh man, I still remember the vapid stuff Bachmann and Santorum were spewing to attack Cain, Perry, Newt, or any candidate who happened to be on the top of the polls.
Exactly by what standard are conservatives seeing Santorum as the uber conservative? All he has is his pro-life credentials. Everything else is boring, tepid, noncommittal. At least Newt and Perry are offering a flat tax and other major reforms. Santorum can’t even support right-to-work laws.
"Santorum can’t even support right-to-work laws."
Right to work is a state issue, and what somebody did as a Senator of a blue collar state isn't necessarily relevant to the actions of a President on a Federal level.
People make concessions sometimes in order to get re-elected- I don't think any of us like it, but that's the way it is. Perry made concessions in regards to illegals in Texas, did he not? (I was strongly opposed to those, too). And Newt- well, Newt went off the rails and sat down on the couch with Nancy, even though he had no reason to...
“Exactly by what standard are conservatives seeing Santorum as the uber conservative? All he has is his pro-life credentials. Everything else is boring, tepid, noncommittal. At least Newt and Perry are offering a flat tax and other major reforms. Santorum can’t even support right-to-work laws.”
I’m not sure that people consider Santorum as an “uber conservative”, but at least he didn’t sit on that couch, or sign an order to shoot up little girls so they could have wild and crazy sex in their early teen years.
As to right-to-work, sure, it would have been nice to see him vote the other way, but the vote was a throw-away (the Republicans got creamed on it), and Santorum is from that part of the country. I have little doubt that he’ll have trouble being a conservative in the White House - the other...it seems to depend on what side of the bed they get out of.