It is not bull, it's the truth. When conservatives were insisting that Specter not be given the Chair of the Judiciary Committee the argument that was used BY HIM and others to support his position was that he had promised to support Bush's judicial nominees as a condition for the support of teh president and Santorum in his primary battle against Toomey.
Look it up!
You guys make some decent points - but I am not certain your conclusions are correct. But I respect the thinking.
So for the sake of this argument, I will somewhat buy in, NOW:
this brings up the entire foundation of the Santorum campaign up til now - which is he is the wind driven snow who stands up for principles and does not play these kinds of games.
He refused to give Rick Perry leeway for the political realities of immigration in Texas and pretended that living in Pennsylvania gives someone a notion of the Mexican reality. (why Rick didn’t burn him on this is another topic altogether, and speaks to Perry’s weakness off the cuff).
He refuses to give Mitt leeway (OK< we all do, but I’m making a point about Santorum logic here) on the realities of Massachusetts. And he refuses to give Newt leeway for the realities of dealing with a bad senate (which he was a part of ) and a liberal President when Newt was speaker.
I am actually ok with political reality at times versus hard line principle. It’s just funny that suddenly Rick has that religion now that he’s a major candidate.