If you are going to use Spector as a source, I will cite Scottish law and say this is “not proved”.
Honestly, the ‘babe in the woods’ nonsense we are hearing here from the anti-Santorum crowd is just amazing. It’s like politics is somehow a shock to them.
People fail to accept that there’s no ‘pure’ politician out there. Santorum owed Specter from previous election help, and reciprocated. We also have to accept that Pennsylvania is an iffy state (especially at the time), and Toomey was seen as too much of a gamble.
Do I like that decision? No. Do I accept it as a political calculation, yes.
I’m wondering who these people who are bashing Rick now happen to think is pure enough to be casting these stones? I mean Newt from the couch alongside Nancy, with Fannie checks in the pocket? Please. Romney is obviously no conservative, and never has been. Paul, well he’s Paul and that doesn’t really deserve further discussion.
Look, I like Santorum, and I like Gingrich. I could live with either option, but the way people are around here, they are more than happy to let the nonexistent perfect be the enemy of the good, and then let Romney slip by so we don’t get the good, but the awful.