Still, it is unfair to compare his voting record to people like Lindsay Graham and Bob Dole, both of whom represented reliable conservative constituencies. Santorum never had that luxury.
Rick Santorum is a 100% reliable social conservative and about an 80% reliable economic conservative. Given where he came from, I don't know how we can realistically expect to elect anything better. I will take Rick Santorum's occasional lapse of faith on a union issue any day over John McCain's or Lindsay Graham's 100% affection for the illegal alien lobby, which is nothing more than the modern pro-slavery lobby when you exclude the clearly racists and anti-American elements.
For some strange reason, a few southern conservatives still have a certain inexplicable nostalgia for the days of slavery. Those of us in the north do not.
Seven reasons for Rick Santorum
- Who has won the most states without the benefit of their own money, last election's organization or a billionaire casino sugar daddy?
- Who is everybody's second choice when he isn't their first?
- Who can get both the Romney people and the Gingrich people, who hate each other, to vote for him?
- Who has the best record on immigration?
- Who has the best plan for repealing ObamaCare? And is the only GOP candidate who didn't help write or approve legislation which helped spawn this fiasco?
- Who has the best plan for expanding the American economy and strengthening American families?
- Who is the closest thing we have to the "generic Republican" which polls show consistently beating Obama and is most likely to make the election about Obama's sorry record rather than about himself?