You have spouted every leftist talking point against Santorum while living in Pittsbugh which has all but been detroyed by the democrats who have been in power for far too long. You know that all the accustions you have made were made by democrats and have two sides but you chose the dem side. Shame on you.
I didn’t choose the Dem side, I am telling folks who want reality reality. Santorum LOST, and LOST big, and he lost BIG for a reason, trivializing his loss by writing it off as “it was the tide” or “it was spectre” or “it was the polkadotted purple people eater” is ignorant and uninformed.
Santorum is far more liked outside of PA than inside, and there is a reason he failed miserably last election here, and while tryte sound bites might sell, they are not accurate. Santorum didn’t lose a close race, he didn’t lose a squeaker, he was sent packing in a complete and total ROUTE! By an opponent who literally no showed the campaign.
You can continue to believe that Santorum’s loss was just a poor alignment of circumstances.. because you know that might align with your emotional desires, but its not true.
Santorum was a 2 term sitting Senator, and he got destroyed, not because he was the center of some scandal.. but because he was rejected. Folks didn’t vote for Casey, he offered them no reason to... they voted against Santorum by an overwhelming margin... that doesn’t happen by accident people.
YOu can blame acorn, you can blame spectre, you can blame Bush, or Rove or whoever, but end of the day, Santorum was responsible for his fate. He didn’t survive the scrutiny of a hard campaign by an absent oponent. You think the 2012 election cycle will have any less viciousness or smaller budgets for attacks against him??
This is an election, not day care, and Santorum won his seat originally by attacking his oponents for far pettier things than he had thrown against him in 06. He’ll face far far harder and tougher things if he winds up the nominee, and he’s already shown he can’t survive it.
He’s not a small government fiscal conservative, he gives nice speaches, but doesn’t follow through. He didn’t shut off the pork, he brought as much if not more home as anyone else.
I am not someone who hates Santorum, I just don’t see him as capable of carrying a national campaign, his history that I personally witnessed in politics does not remotely inspire confidence in his abilities in this campaign. I do see him as a viable VP, but as the main guy, just don’t see it.
We’ll see how it all plays out, but based on how he was destroyed by Casey, no way he can handle Obama and his war machine IMHO.