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why does Santorume feel the need to keep proving himself on moral issues???

It's the only thing he's comfortable talking about because that's where he's based his political career in the past and well known in congress for just that.

Further he simply isn't abreast of the issues as we see him struggle time and again to frame his position trying to remember what he was told to say.

“It’s the only thing he’s comfortable talking about because that’s where he’s based his political career in the past”

With a clean slate of achievements, that’s all he can keep talking about. He’s a nosing, pompous, sanctimonious bore.

"Santorum, the "compassionate Christian conservative" founded a charity that was actually a scam. In 2001, following up on a faith-based urban charity initiative around the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia, Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation. While in its first few years the charity cut checks to community groups for $474,000, Operation Good Neighbor Foundation had actually raised more than $1 million, from donors who overlapped with Santorum's political fund raising. Where did the majority of the charity's money go? In salary and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum's finance director Rob Bickhart, later finance chair of the Republican National Committee. When I reported on Santorum's charity for The American Prospect in 2006, experts told me a responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants, and they were shocked to learn the figure for Operation Good Neighbor Fund was less than 36 percent. The charity – which didn't register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law --- was finally disbanded in 2007."