At the least, Santorum severely stretched the truth by taking credit for endorsing Spector who promised to support Bush’s Supreme Court nominees and for taking credit for the Alito and Roberts ending up on the court. Santorum takes credit for too many accomplishments in the House and Senate. I believe that truth checkers will continue to have a field day with Santorum’s boasting.
It’s worth noting... just for fun, of course....
That Santorum has a long history of endorsing Specter. He also endorsed Specter when he ran for president on the prochoice vanity theme in ‘96.
I wonder how much stretching is required for that one....
There are only two men on earth who know the truth, and one of them is a serial lying Democrat. Sorry for the redundancy. Bob
I believe that truth checkers will continue to have a field day with Santorum’s boasting.
The way they had a field day with scum like Harkin and Blumenthal claiming to be Vietnam veterans when they weren't, or Algore inventing the internet? Now, I agree that for a Republican those kinds of lies would be killers, but for the rats those lies are just another day at the office as far as the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms are concerned. But a campaigning politician exaggerating his victories and taking extra credit for stuff? C'mon..
Look, I happen to be a Newt guy, but Santorum would be fine with me. I'll happily vote for either of them. But both of them - - not to mention every other politician - - are in the business of promoting themselves and I'm not about to get agita over it if they stretch the truth. Outright lies are a definite no-no, but a little stretch here and there has got to be expected. You just roll your eyes and take out of it what you can.
FRegards,
LH
IMO, Santorum stretched nothing. RIGHT AFTER Arlen won, and I mean it was a matter of a few hours, Arlen made a live on air comment that he was pretty much going to do what he felt like vis a vis W. After all that campaigning Bush and Santorum did to save his butt! There were people so furious with him that he almost didn’t get the Judicial Committee Chairmanship. Most likely, after he had crawled back over a sufficient amount of hot macadam, he got the Charmanship, and behaved himself very well regarding the SCOTUS nominations.
THIS is Arlen Specter.
(excerpt): "And as for the pro-abortion-rights presidential candidate Santorum endorsed, when Specter launched a long-shot bid for president in 1995, Santorum — his fellow Pennsylvanian — was one of his few high-profile endorsements.
For Specter, who later became a Democrat, his pro-abortion-rights position was a centerpiece of his campaign. Specter believed that anti-abortion activists were a “fringe” group hijacking the Republican party.
“There are clearly more Republicans who are pro-choice,” Specter told Newsday’s Susan Page. “Up until now, I am the only person willing to take on the fringe.” After Specter dropped out of the race, he led an ill-fated movement to change the anti-abortion provision in the Republican party platform.
Santorum was effectively returning a favor by endorsing Specter despite his aggressive pro-abortion-rights views. Specter had supported Santorum’s 1994 Senate campaign."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290880/santorum-endorsed-specters-presidential-bid-katrina-trink