Josh, I have been following politics for 25 years. I understand it all too well. Republican politicians like Santorum almost NEVER pay a price for the mistakes they make. We, the constituent's pay the price. Babies in the womb, pay the price. Other innocent people pay the price. Republicans, like myself, keep voting the same Republicans back into office, despite what they do or don't do, because we don't want the Democrats to win. Republican politicians now take the votes of conservatives for granted and do whatever they please. Their careers come first, even before the cause and the innocent people they hurt.
This is not a mistake I am willing to make anymore. Politicians including Republican politicians cannot take the votes of conservatives for granted any longer. When they make the kind of mistakes Santorum is now making, we cannot vote them back into office. Strategically, it's wrong; it gets us nowhere and we end up with little or nothing.
This was no minor betrayal by Santorum. He betrayed us BIGTIME. Twice. It cannot be swept under the carpet and forgotten.
We shall see what happens with the judges. I hope I'm wrong, but I very much doubt it. Specter will become the head of the judiciary and will go back to doing the damage he has always done. Only this time the consequences will be broader, deeper and farther ranging.
We keep voting the same Republicans back into office.
Well guess what, we don't really have much of a choice do we.