[JenB]

Come on, politics are dirty and it's against "the rules" to endorse a challenger in the primary.

FWIW, I think Santorum's endorsement is pretty wishy-washy. Along the lines of "Well, if it really matters, Specter votes with us. Usually". Talk about damning with faint praise.

[Alberta's Child]

Come on, politics are dirty and it's against "the rules" to endorse a challenger in the primary.

Then don't endorse anyone.

[JohnnyZ]

Specter is a RINO.

Bush and Santorum support Specter -- they must be RINOs too.

Thus anyone who supports Bush or Santorum is also a RINO.

/sarc

[Badray]

There are enough of the voters swayed by those endorsements to make the race closer than it should be. I think that a lot of us WISH that those endorsements doen't hurt Toomey, but it is just wishing.

Consider this regarding the claim "that he is with us when it really counts":

I guess that means that the Right to Life doesn't really count,

or that medical malpractice reform doesn't really count,

or that the Bush tax cut didn't really count,

or that reducing wasteful government spending doesn't really count,

or that school choice doesn't really count,

or that having our soldiers dragged before an international court doesn't really count.