Believe it or not, he is the voice for all Pennsylvanians, and he must represent them all. Not just you and not just the conservative base. Politics is about the art of the possible. Not pipe dreams.
Now, do you really think it is a viable position for a senator to disresepect the senior senator from his own state and party and the President of the US as well?
What happens when Spectre wins anyway (as he was likely to do) and Santorum has to face him in the senate? What ahappens when Santorum wants to get his next bill passed and needs the president's help? What happens when Santorum needs help in his re-election fight and he finds the war chests of his GOP colleagues closed shut cause he refused to support one of their own?
You have to think large.
SD
What you are saying is that Santorum made a political decision. Fine. The political process will decide if it was a good decision, or suicidal. I suspect that it was suicidal and the sweet irony will be that he won't have a chance to succeed Frist.....the whole reason he sold out his base. Ah, she who laughs last.....
If we continue to rubber stamp our ballots, because so called Republicans are the lesser of the evils, we'll simply elect those who have no allegiance to the electorate. NO MORE. Rick will lose and hopefully the others will learn from his mistake.
"You have to think large."
SD,
You are putting what's good for Santorum ahead of what's right and what's good for the country. They are NOT the same thing.
You act as though the only way to get money is thru the party. If Santorum had backed principle, not only would he have had the undying support of his constituents, he would have had an ally in the Senate with Toomey. It would have also taught a very valuable lesson that loyalty to principle works on a lot of levels.
What you are seeing now is that betrayal is costly. Because not only is Rick not likely to rise higher within the party anyway, he will have a hard time retaining his seat, if he does. He made a serious political miscalculation and he is either too arrogant or too stupid to realize it and correct it.