[Christie at the beach]

Santorum should have supported Toomey, not Arlen. I could believe these men had a conservation. It also shows that Santorum is an inside team player. I was very angry with Santorum when he double crossed us on pro-life Toomey. Sometimes, I don't understand how people allow the politicians to get away with this game; I cover for you, you cover for me. It was probably a promise made between these men; Arlen hated that it was exposed. Arlen was a nightmare; wondering which way he would vote on issues. Bush saved his candidacy once and Rick did help that as well (team player) I was upset that GW Bush went to save Arlen (they told us it was for the judiciary) Arlen should had been left with no support imo.

[true believer forever]

After Hatch, had Specter not won, Kyl or Cornyn were next in line. Cornyn wasn’t interested because he had the leadership of another committee... from what I’ve read in the archives at FR, Kyl is an okay guy.

There was also a grassroots campaign to stall Specter, which was talked about here on FR in 2004:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274088/posts

From Human Events:
Specter Stands Alone:
No GOP Senator on Judiciary Committee Willing to Declare Support for Specter — Santorum Also Declines to Lend Support. 11/09/2004

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=5724

Sanctimonium is no different than other politician, but his holier-than-thou attitude causes him to offer himself as such. And a lot of people are believing in him, the same way they believed Barack, a wet-behind-the-ears senator, with a lot of emotion-laden rhetoric, who presented himself as America’s hope. It’s the republicans’ turn to be taken in, this time, by a republican Messiah. It is really a shame, they haven’t learned anything from watching how Barack did it.