When Santorum lost in PA..it was due to his endorsement of Arlen Spector which pissed off the fiscally conservative republicans. Santorum has a lot of baggage too..its just that his poll numbers are so low that noone cares to look into them all..Republican strategists took as a bad omen Santorum’s primary result in 2006, in which he ran unopposed for the Republican nomination. Republican gubernatorial nominee Lynn Swann, also unopposed, garnered 22,000 more votes statewide than Santorum in the primary, meaning thousands of Republican voters abstained from endorsing Santorum for another Senate term. This may have been partly due to Santorum’s support for Arlen Specter, over Congressman Pat Toomey in the 2004 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Even though Santorum is only slightly less conservative than Toomey, he joined virtually all of the state and national Republican establishment in supporting the moderate Specter. This led many socially and fiscally conservative Republicans to consider Santorum’s support of Specter to be a betrayal of their cause.
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Did he ever try to justify his position in supporting somebody who wasn’t conservative?
So when Santorum endorsed Specter seven years ago at the behest of his president and party, he committed an egregious, unforgiveable sin, but when Newt endorsed Scozzafava two years ago of his own volition, he just made a bad judgment call and one we should really all ignore 'cause, I mean, Newt apologized, and was really just going for the big tent...?
Yes, that’s why people were upset with Santorum.
Much like Newt supported Dede, in a more recent, high profile case.
Except that Specter was the incumbent, and Dede wasn’t. And it’s really bad form to not support the incumbent, apparently.
Santorum and Specter were not the same. Specter was a RINO, Santorum wasn’t.
Just with that one Dede support, Newt is worse than Santorum. What else bad is there about Santorum?