[Just mythoughts]

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.

I have not liked or respected Santorum since he helped Lott kill the impeachment proceedings against that gutter snipe Clinton. I accept Rick as a typical politician, so the sooner he gets off his 'righteous' soap box then maybe I can accept him as being who he really is.

[drbuzzard]

>I have not liked or respected Santorum since he helped Lott kill the impeachment proceedings against that gutter snipe Clinton.

Impeaching Clinton fully would have been suicide for the GOP. While he might have deserved it technically, the American people didn’t think so. The media had diffused the issues down to a ‘mere’ sex scandal, and that was not nationally seen as enough to boot a president who was generally seen as pretty successful. The biggest problem the Senate faced at the time was the pathetically limited scope of the prosecution. Clinton had a lot more dirt on his hands than screwing around with Lewinsky, but nobody was willing to touch the dark stuff. Given what was handed the Senate, I can understand what they did (even if it was unpleasant).

Maybe I don’t watch enough Santorum speeches, but I don’t get the ‘righteous’ vibe that much. Yes, he does have a history of a strong family without any real moral lapses. However he readily admits that he has played politics like the rest of the people in the game. Any politician who claims they have not is merely lying through their teeth.