“Weak resume? “
OK, so you think that Santorum has a strong resume.
I would judge it differently.
Obama is an incumbent president which historically is VERY hard to unseat.
12 years in the Senate Santorum accomplished almost nothing except stop partial birth abortion. This is good, but he didn’t reduce the size of government, didn’t reform welfare or cut taxes and often voted for pro union positions.
Santorum is asking to run one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world and has NO management experience.
Then he lost by 17 points IN HIS OWN STATE the last time he ran. He can’t even convince people who know him best to support him.
Sorry, but a really weak resume.
Now I will support him if need be, but doubt if he could win.
RE: Santorum’s record in the Senate.
Let’s look at some of his other accomplishments off the top of my head:
* As a Republican leader in the Senate, he was pivotal in the fight to confirm U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito ( he and the other Senator from PA, Arlen Specter, who at that time, did not turn turncoat).
* Rick Santorum opposed frivolous lawsuits against the gun industry by helping with the legislation (The Protection of Lawful Commerce Act) that would protect law abiding firearms manufacturers and dealers from frivolous lawsuits attempting to hold them liable for criminal acts of third parties.
* He was also co-author and floor manager of the landmark Welfare Reform Act which passed in 1996.
* Authored both the “Syria Accountability Act” and the “Iran Freedom and Support Act” which he successfully fought to pass in spite of initial opposition by President Bush.
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RE: He lost by 17 points IN HIS OWN STATE the last time he ran
That was at a time when REPUBLICANS LOST NATIONWIDE EVERYWHERE and both houses were taken over by the Democrats.
Bush LOST in PA by a HUGE MARGIN to John Kerry just two years before.
If you believe this is a political career ender, consider how Richard Nixon lost the presidential race in 1960 and then went on to lose the governor’s race in California in 1962 ( just two years later ). You know the rest of the story.
Very true, however there are unique circumstances here. One, he did a bad job. Two, "lied his way into office and may not even be eligible" puts a helluva asterisk next to that incumbent "I".
Three, even Jimmy Carter had a better claim to a return to office than Obozo does. And that's being pretty fair on the job-performance front, comparing apples to apples.
12 years in the Senate Santorum accomplished almost nothing except stop partial birth abortion. This is good, but he didn’t reduce the size of government, didn’t reform welfare or cut taxes and often voted for pro union positions.
A. That’s more than Obama has done. Obama voted twice to have babies surviving abortions murdered.
B. While Santorum was accomplishing whatever he accomplished, he wasn’t screwing his interns.