>>My understanding is that a two-term US senator has to really work at getting blown out of his third election, i.e. it isn’t basically easy to do.<<
You’re right. It was really tough. By November 2006 the vast majority of the voters, liberal and conservative both, were against pursuing the Iraq war. Only President Bush and a few supporters held strong, with Bush finally approving the surge, against nearly all advice, but that finally settled the fighting in our favor.
And one of his supporters at the time, Rick Santorum, who stood by both his principles and his President, paid for it dearly, losing by double digits as even Republicans deserted him.
He stuck by his principles and lost. Romney changes his principles regularly to avoid the same fate. I’ll take Santorum’s approach any day. And he’ll make a far better President because of it.
Succinctly, bullshit! The conservatives didn’t vote for Santorum because he endorsed Toomey. FR is not the place for revisionist history.
Santorum, from the Latin: disaster in the wings, catastrophe.