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Universal Health names ex-Sen. Rick Santorum to board By Gabriel Madway Last Update: 5:06 PM ET Apr 16, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Universal Health Services Inc. said late Monday former Senator Rick Santorum has been appointed as a director. Santorum, who served in the Senate from 1995 until 2007, becomes the King of Prussia, Pa.-based hospital operator's ninth board member.

Santorum, known nationally for his social conservatism, says Giuliani does a good job of reminding people how he governed as a conservative on crime, welfare and taxes in New York City. Santorum also believes Giuliani has scored points on social issues with his comments about judges and Supreme Court justices. "Rudy understands that, on those issues, the courts are where conservatives have been losing the battle," he says. "If he is going to be appointing judges in the Scalia-Thomas (mold), then he is sending a very positive message to conservatives that he understands the importance of having the Constitution interpreted...

For the moment, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sits on double-digit leads over the rest of the Republican presidential-hopeful pack in several national polls. Why? "It appears to me that Rudy is going aggressively after the conservative vote," says Pennsylvania Republican and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. "He has not ceded that ground to anybody." Santorum, known nationally for his social conservatism, says Giuliani does a good job of reminding people how he governed as a conservative on crime, welfare and taxes in New York City. Santorum also believes Giuliani has scored points on social issues with his comments...

Former Sen. Rick Santorum has drawn at least one conclusion about the Republican presidential primary field: Anybody but John McCain. The Pennsylvania Republican, who signed a contract Thursday as a Fox News contributor, said he has spoken with every GOP candidate – except the senator from Arizona – but it’s still too early for him to endorse. “The only one I wouldn’t support is McCain,” Santorum said during an interview in his office at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, where he is a senior fellow. “I don’t agree with him on hardly any issues,’’ Santorum said. “I...

(Hershey, Pa. 02/16/07)Recently elected Democrat US Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has already caused the loss of 1500 quality high-paying jobs at chocolate giant Hershey Co., analysts confirmed today. Hershey made the announcement along with a statement saying they would instead launch plans to build a new factory in Mexico. (per AP writer Peter Jackson)

Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum, a conservative, when pressed to pick between two possible liberal candidates for president in 2008, selected Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. Santorum, appearing on MSNBC’s "Imus in the Morning” program, said he is reluctant to have either one of them in office, but suggested Clinton’s experience eclipses any luster Obama may bring to the White House. "I just don’t think Barack Obama is ready for prime time,” Santorum said. "You can’t put a man like that in a situation where the country is in the state that it’s in right now. Believe me, Hillary and...

This morning on Imus, Rick Santorum said that the intelligence community had suppressed evidence of Iran's involvement in Iraq, because they were afraid Bush would use it to go to war against Iran, and they didn't want to start another war. First, did anybody else here this? Second, if I heard correctly, does anybody know of a source for this claim? I don't remember reading about it here anywhere, I would think that even if the MSM didn't make a big deal of it, we would have noticed.

Rick Santorum says he will remain a vocal advocate of America's war on terror -- what he calls "the greatest problem ... a very grave threat to the future and security of our country" -- despite losing his U.S. Senate seat. The always-outspoken Republican is "working on a lot of different things ... to play a part in that struggle," although he remains noncommittal about his next job and his political future. He discussed those and other issues in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, his first extensive remarks since losing re-election to Democrat Bob Casey Jr. on Nov. 7....

He's weighing all kinds of offers for his post-Senate life. Another campaign? He says he tries "not to close doors." Rick Santorum has fallen out of favor with Pennsylvania voters, but the job market seems to adore him. Despite his 18-point loss to Bob Casey Jr., the Senate's most outspoken conservative quickly fielded offers: spar on TV as an analyst, write a book, join a think tank, make speeches around the country. Law firms called, too. Speaking last week for the first time about his post-Senate plans, Santorum said he would try all five. "I can go out there and...

Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I rise today to talk about why I voted against Dr. Gates and lay out in detail the concerns I have about the security posture of the United States today and how I do not believe that Dr. Gates is the appropriate choice to confront them. While I think he certainly has a lot of positive qualities, and in normal times I would certainly defer to the President's judgment on this, we are not in normal times. I believe we need a Secretary--and I think we need leaders in this country, particularly the Secretary--who has insight...

Thursday December 07, 2006 By KIMBERLY HEFLING Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Rick Santorum delivered a reflective farewell speech on Thursday in which he thanked Pennsylvania voters for the opportunity to serve them in Congress for 16 years. Santorum said he always understood that voters were his employers, but he acknowledged there were a lot of times he didn't agree with them. ``Maybe I spoke up too often, too loudly, too boldly on some of the things my employer didn't agree with me on,'' Santorum said. ``I hope they respect the fact I felt ... it was a...

WASHINGTON - In a departing speech Wednesday on the Senate floor, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum warned of the growing threat of what he calls "Islamic fascism." It was a familiar theme for Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican, who lost in the Nov. 7 general election to Democrat Bob Casey. Throughout his campaign, he warned of the escalating threats from countries such as Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Santorum, a two-term incumbent, said Wednesday his one regret about not returning for the next Congress is that he won't be able to focus on the issue of energy security. "It is...

[snip] Overall, 52 Republicans, 42 Democrats and one independent voted for Gates. Three lawmakers _ Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. _ did not vote. Two Bush allies, Sens. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and Jim Bunning, R-Ky., voted against Gates, citing his criticism of the war and his view that the U.S. should engage Iran as part of a solution. "Mr. Gates has repeatedly criticized our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan without providing any viable solutions to the problems our troops currently face," Bunning said. "We need a secretary of defense to think forward with solutions...

Seems like just yesterday Republicans were warning Democrats not to count their hicks before they were catched. Democrats said they had a plan to get the guys with the Confederate flags, but Republicans said you can’t con those folks into loving federal overreach. Democrats said they could draw pro-life votes, but Republicans scoffed: “We’re the pros. Get a life!” Democrats said they could attract budget-balancers and Republicans countered: “That is our constituency and you can’t budge it.” Well, bite your tongues, all you RNC guys and gals with the starched collars. Them there rubes done drug you out the door....

Don't expect to see Sen. Rick Santorum's name on the 2008 presidential ballot. "Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely not," Santorum said yesterday on The Michael Smerconish Show on WPHT-AM (1210). "My wife would throw me out of the house if I do anything in '08." Even though he lost his Senate seat last week by 18 points to Democrat Bob Casey Jr., some supporters hoped he would still fill the social conservative niche on the Republican ticket. William J. Bennett, the former U.S. secretary of education and national drug czar, had predicted a "draft Rick Santorum" movement, citing a lack of...

Santorum Nails the True Nature of Islamic Fascism - One day after we publicly burned the lies contained in the Koran, the homosexual flag, and seven abominable Supreme Court decisions in Jackson, Mississippi, Senator Rick Santorum gave this speech. It is remarkable, and perhaps the most powerful speech given by anyone in the United States Senate in the past fifty years. Below, some excerpts from Senator Santorum's speech, at the “Conservative Union League” in Center City Philadelphia, July 27, 2006. Click here for the full text of the speech ~Flip “The Great Test of This Generation – Naming and defeating...

Reason Magazine Blogger Finds Pleasure in Tears of Rick Santorum's 8-year-old Daughter Because the libertarian universe has no place for the vulnerable, weak, or the dependent--since none are autonomous adult-choosers in search of virtual kiddie porn--it has no qualms in providing a forum in which children and their families can be verbally abused and have profanities hurled at them. Read and weep Julian Sanchez's "Your Tears Are So Yummy and Sweet" in which the writer says he finds joy in the tears of Rick Santorum's eight-year-old daughter, who is pictured crying next to her father as he gives his concession...

First, let me thank you for your support and your faith throughout this campaign and beyond. I am so blessed to be surrounded by not only my loving family but so many wonderful supporters committed to the future of our state and our nation. Although the results were not what we wanted, we couldn't be prouder of our campaign and the job we've done for you and your families. You should be proud too for the hours you spent making calls, knocking on doors, talking to family, friends and neighbors and all the other time you spent thinking about and...

Santorum concedes... less than 12% of precints reporting and he's conceded already... I dunno.. .weird.

Bob Casey Democrat 8,711 (60%) Rick Santorum (i) Republican 5,902 (40%)

The AP has already said Rick Santorum's 12-year Senate run is over, but his campaign is denying that -- and raising lots of complaints about voting irregularities. According to the AP, state Republicans asked Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes to investigate what they said were instances in at least 12 counties where voters allegedly tried to vote for Republican candidates but that the machines reflected Democratic votes. Santorum's campaign said voters complained that votes cast for the Republican were registered on computers for his Democratic opponent Bob Casey.

From a connected Keystoner: We all prepared for this year?s elections to be heated, particularly in PA with so many contested races. But even with teams of lawyers on the ground, I don?t think anyone anticipated what is going on right now. I expect this will be THE national story by 5pm today if not sooner. 37 counties in Pennsylvania use the ESS & Ivotronic. These machines are experiencing massive failures. If you vote for one candidate, the opposing candidate lights up. Rendell votes are counting for Swann. Santorum votes are counting for Casey and so on County Boards of...

Rick Santorum won his seat with the help of anti-Democratic sentiment and rose to become the No. 3 Republican in the Senate on the strength of his conservative credentials, but 12 years later he is fighting an anti-GOP wave. After an intense 18-month campaign in which both candidates raised about $40 million, Santorum and the Democratic candidate and front-runner in polls, Bob Casey, spent the final days emphasizing familiar themes. Appearing upbeat, Casey walked from his Scranton home with his family around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to a polling place set up at a church basement in Scranton. There were no...

Sen. Rick Santorum toured small towns in a Republican stronghold Monday, trying to convince voters that electing a Pennsylvania Democrat to a full Senate term for the first time in more than 40 years would hurt the country. "What direction do they want? Less jobs created, unemployment, higher deficits, higher taxes? I don't know what new direction they're focused on, but the direction of this economy is strong right now," Santorum said, invoking his opponent's theme of a "new direction." Democratic challenger Bob Casey told voters gathered for a bingo game in Pittsburgh that he would ensure voters' interests "are...

"Nought man could do, have I left undone." The line from Robert Browning's poem "The Patriot" springs to mind as Pennsylvania's Senator Rick Santorum talks quietly but passionately during a last swing through the heart of Pennsylvania. The crowd in Carlisle, the county seat of vote-rich Cumberland County, filled with a decided mix of seniors, mullet-wearing young men, parents with squirming kids (including Santorum's six), and enthusiastic twenty-somethings. They are witnesses to one of the most remarkable Senate candidates in the country as well as in Pennsylvania's long history, and they clearly know it. While Santorum has long-since emerged as...

Encouraging News [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Even I, "raging Santorum enthusiast," wasn't too into that poll circulating earlier today that had Senator Santorum him down 4, for reasons I've mentioned. But maybe that "4" wasn't insane. I'm told by a good, albeit Republican, source that Gov. Rendell's latest internals have Santorum only 5 behind. I'm told he had Santorum at 9 on Friday and 17 three weeks ago. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this race is in play. The innane analysis is that turnout means everything. But it couldn't be more true in the Keystone state. Conservatives in Pennsylvania can make a...

Encouraging News [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Even I, "raging Santorum enthusiast," wasn't too into that poll circulating earlier today that had Senator Santorum him down 4, for reasons I've mentioned. But maybe that "4" wasn't insane. I'm told by a good, albeit Republican, source that Gov. Rendell's latest internals have Santorum only 5 behind. I'm told he had Santorum at 9 on Friday and 17 three weeks ago. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this race is in play. The innane analysis is that turnout means everything. But it couldn't be more true in the Keystone state. Conservatives in Pennsylvania can make a...

A McCulloch Research poll conducted over the weekend suggests the senate race in PA is tightening. It reports State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr. leads Senator Rick Santorum 48.1-44.1% among "very likely voters." There's an interesting breakdown of how the election is shaping up regionally, and while McCulloch maintains the race is still Mr. Casey's to lose, he believes that Senator Santorum is now within striking distance. He even uses the word "upset." Given the dismal flatness of the PA polls over the last eight weeks, the only factor that explains this shift is the John Kerry Factor. After Senator Kerry...

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Friday that the nation would "go back on defense" in the war on terror if Republicans like Sen. Rick Santorum are booted from office. Giuliani made his third visit to Pennsylvania to campaign for Santorum, who trails state Treasurer Bob Casey in public opinion polls. "After Sept. 11, there is no excuse for not adequately seeing the threat," Giuliani told a raucous crowd of about 400 people. "If Rick Santorum is not re-elected and his opponent is elected and people like his opponent are elected, they are going to push us very, very...

Santorum ‘Closing Hard,’ New Poll Says November 6, 2006 For more information contact For immediate release Rod McCulloch 312-388-1782 U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has gained ground in his bid to win re-election, according to a new poll released Monday. The poll of 800 very likely general election voters, was conducted by McCulloch Research & Polling, an independent polling company out of Chicago, on November 4-5. Santorum’s opponent, State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr., led the incumbent Senator 48.1-44.1%, according to the poll. “Senator Santorum has a history of closing hard at the end of his campaigns,” said pollster Rod McCulloch. “It...

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A friend and I held the yard sign high. The lead car finally appeared, flashed his lights, and the crowd started shouting "six more years". Then the Santorum Family appeared, Rick, Karen, their six beautiful children and a niece. Rick was driving and smiling. This good man and great Senator, just like the rest of us, came from church, to a luncheon with a group of people who love him. He spoke, introduced his lovely wife and children, had lunch with us and was gone. Then we went back to...

Two nauseating accusations keep popping up in the knock-down, drag-out Senate campaign between Rick Santorum and Bob Casey Jr. One has to do with Casey's job performance. Santorum says his opponent is essentially a no-show in his job as state treasurer. The second is the flat-out arrogance -- and there's plenty of it flying around in Republican attack ads -- that anything less than genuflection to the Bush administration's go-it-alone pursuit of the current mess in Iraq is unpatriotic and wrong. Here's the best reason to vote for the Democrat, Casey, and we thank Santorum for bringing it to our...

Rick Santorum is another story. Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, among others, has attested to his effectiveness as a senator. New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote, "I could fill this column, if not this entire page, with a list of ideas, proposals and laws Mr. Santorum has poured out in the last dozen years." On the stump, Mr. Santorum has been sounding Churchillian. If President Bush spoke as clearly and forcefully about the threat we face and how we should deal with it, he'd be more popular, and we'd be safer. "The commanding grasp shown by Sen. Santorum of the...

Dear Fellow Conservative, With just 72 hours to go until Election Day, I have never felt as good about our campaign as I do right now. Thanks to thousands of supporters and volunteers from across the country and even around the world, I know we are going to give the pundits and our opponents a big surprise on Tuesday. The stakes in this race are incredibly high! The choices voters will make on Tuesday will decide which party leads our country - the common-sense, conservative leaders dedicated to defeating Islamic fascists and those who want to kill Americans, or...

WASHINGTON -- As the furor widened over Sen. John Kerry's insulting remarks about U.S. troops in Iraq, his website pulled down a listing of $4.2 million worth of contributions he had sent this year to 36 candidates for Congress. Kerry, eyeing another presidential candidacy in 2008, has traveled the country raising funds for key contests in Tuesday's midterm elections. The now deleted information on the Kerry website displayed the photos of his beneficiaries: 18 Senate candidates receiving $3.2 million and 18 House candidates getting $1 million. The largest Kerry contribution was $586,000 to Pennsylvania State Treasurer Bob Casey, who is...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - November 3, 2006 - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Friday that the nation would "go back on defense" in the war on terror if Republicans like Sen. Rick Santorum are booted from office. Giuliani made his third visit to Pennsylvania to campaign for Santorum, who trails state Treasurer Bob Casey in public opinion polls. "After Sept. 11, there is no excuse for not adequately seeing the threat," Giuliani told a raucous crowd of about 400 people. "If Rick Santorum is not re-elected and his opponent is elected and people like his opponent are elected,...

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Bob Casey has an interesting relationship with the NAACP. He's currently a member, which is fine. But that doesn't really exempt him from skipping out on their events, like a candidate forum. The other three statewide candidates where there. But he claimed he was too busy with Senator Barack Obama in Pittsburgh. The only trouble is that Obama was in California.The man who's schedule is tightly held secret had something else going on. More important than trying to earn the black vote. And if you're going to lie about where you were, why would you lie with a very famous...

We endorse Sen. Rick Santorum in his re-election bid for his seat in the U.S. Senate. While we may not agree with every one of his positions, he is the right choice for Pennsylvania, and the country. His opponent, state treasurer Bob Casey Jr., seems like a nice enough guy and has the allure of a well-regarded name. But we don’t think he has the gravitas or is principled enough to be a U.S. senator.We’re also concerned that he’s perhaps just a little too ambitious in his never-ending quest to seek higher office. Santorum is a good choice for a...

You see kids – this is what happens when your worldview gets hopelessly narrow. In its semi-annual November surprise, the New York Times “reveals” that the Bush administration put documents on the web that showed that Iraq was quite far along in its quest for nuclear weapons. Naturally, that’s not the focus of the story. The focus of the story is the cursed incompetence of the Bush administration, the Republican Party, and even right-wing media-types (like me!) who wanted the documents released. But the takeaway from the story for normal people won’t be that conservatives both inside and outside the...

The big "scoop" on today's front page will be deconstructed at length. Our own professor Geraghty has already done a fine job, and Ed Morrissey has added some further thought and analysis. The bottom line is that the Times has apparently embraced the position taken by Senators Santorum and Roberts, and Representative Hoekstra: that much valuable information was contained in captured Iraqi documents, and that the Intelligence Community was far too slow in translating and evaluating the documents, and that it would be a Very Good Thing to start posting the documents online so that they could be evaluated. Santorum...

Lewisburg, PA -- Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, commented today on a story published in The New York Times that calls to question the release of valuable information contained in captured pre-war documents discovered in Iraq. “It is incumbent on the President, as our Commander in Chief, to hold members of the intelligence community accountable to the law if an error was made in improperly posting sensitive information on the Internet.” “In the legislation that I authored, and in correspondence with the President, the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, I...

Bob Casey has an interesting relationship with the NAACP. He’s currently a member, which is fine. But that doesn’t really exempt him from skipping out on their events, like a candidate forum. The other three statewide candidates where there. But he claimed he was too busy with Senator Barack Obama in Pittsburgh. The only trouble is that Obama was in California. The man who’s schedule is tightly held secret had something else going on. More important than trying to earn the black vote. And if you’re going to lie about where you were, why would you lie with a very...

It has been hard not to experience the election as a brute-force clash between two armies struggling over terrain their soldiers have come to see, inevitably--they are at war, they are exhausted--as the location of the battle, but not its purpose. The nation is where the contest takes place; you can forget, in the fight, that its actual future is what's being fought for.But here's an exception: the state of Pennsylvania, which has been this year a bright patch of meaning. Its U.S. Senate contest has been the great race of the cycle, the one about which conservatives in their...

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - The harder U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum campaigns, the more voters dislike him, a new Franklin & Marshall College poll suggests. The two-term Republican has fallen farther behind Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the race for U.S. Senate as voters grow more concerned about the war in Iraq and less comfortable with his often combative style. “There’s been a huge shift away from a fairly tight race to a demonstrable — if not insurmountable — lead for Casey,” said G. Terry Madonna, the director of Franklin & Marshall College’s Center for Politics and Public Affairs. Casey has...

Holy cow, you MUST WATCH THIS!!!!! Click here.This one is gonna leave a mark...may be the single best ad of the year. God bless Rick Santorum.

What can we do in the few days to keep Santorum in the Senate? This is the Senate race I care most about (moderators please don't delete).

Just setting up now. They showed the protest earlier and I think they intervied Doctor Raoul. Sure looked like him

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: November 1, 2006 Virginia Davis 215-528-9368 virginiad@ricksantorum.com VETERANS RALLY AGAINST CASEY, KERRY   Philadelphia - Veterans rallied at a press conference tonight demanding that Casey denounce John Kerry's insulting comments about our troops in Iraq. Earlier this week, Kerry suggested American troops wouldn't be "stuck in Iraq" if they had done their "homework" and made "an effort to be smart" in school. The press conference was held steps away from the location where Casey intended to hold a fundraiser with Kerry before Kerry cancelled in the wake of his disparaging comments. Senator...