We agree on at least one thing. We will disagree on Santorum with regard to intent and effectiveness. I’ll also throw in willingness to take up important battles.
I still believe that Toomey would have won in that election, keeping the majority and replacing Specter with Jon Kyl as head of the judiciary committee. Keep in mind that Toomey did handily win the senate just a few years later.
As for the NRA, they continued to give Arlen Specter an A
rating even though he voted for the so called ‘assault weapons’ban. To me, the NRA endorsement is less than principled or reliable.
And he doesn’t walk the walk if he is endorsing pro abortion candidates no matter what his self serving stated reasons are. He has NEVER endorsed or worked to elect a pro lifer in 12 years in the senate. NEVER. How is that pro life. His wife may have had a sincere change of heart since her days of working for an abortionist (and maybe that is why she changed) but apparently Rick didn’t value her opinion much since he sided with the abortion candidate in at least 3 races.
Since you are relying on the opinions of La Pierre and Levin, may I assume that you do not live in PA and do not have any personal interaction with Santorum? I’ve seen Rick in action. He is not gutsy. I will say this, he does give a great red meat speech for conservatives at fundraisers and in front of the camera. Not so much otherwise.
Rick Santorum had two disabled children, and fights for all children. Rick was the architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion. Rick does more than simply vote pro-life.
Not only would Toomey have less of a chance of winning, he would not have been the head of the Judicial Committee, as Specter was, and Rick said that we would not have Alito, if it weren’t for Specter. Even Toomey endorsed Santorum for his last U.S. Senate race. He knew.
Santorum actually wrote the Welfare Reform bill, and didn’t just vote for it.
Santorum does the work, is brilliant and is a fighter, not just a run-of-the-mill senator who merely voted the right way. His wife said he is brilliant, and he is.
According top NRA CEO, we would not have gun manufacturers in our country, and you and me would be buying our guns from other countries, probably Red China.