All well and good, but if one digs a little deeper, all of these rankings are based on cherry picking a few votes and not any deeply held personal principles.
Santorum could have stood up when it counted and vote against No Child Left Behind and the Prescription bill but he decided to “be a team player” and vote for two huge expansions of federal government power. Both of these were “severely un-conservative” anti-family, anti-American pieces of legislation.
The Chamber of Commerce?? Don’t those folks support our socialist trade agreements??
Why is Rick Santorum only a B- with Gun Owners of America?
Why does Rick Santorum have an A+ rating with the NRA? Don’t know? I’ll show you why:
‘“He [Rick Santorum] was the most effective advocate of bringing it [legislation to protect gun companies from frivolous lawsuits] to the floor and getting a vote scheduled. He used his influence to get it to the floor. Without that, we would have lost every American gun company.”
– Wayne LaPierre, CEO – National Rifle Association, October 25, 2006’
excerpt http://www.ricksantorum.com/defending-2nd-amendment-rights
Read that carefully, and you should see that without Rick Santorum we’d be purchasing our guns from other countries, maybe Red China.