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The first thing Rick has to do is shut up with his Bush bashing comments on Imus. Sucking up to people like that won't get the job done. The next thing to do is decide if he wants to beat Casey or BE Casey. Start talking about the differences between you and him Rick. The campaign is on whether you want to acknowledge that fact or not. Start hitting back at the guy you know you will be running against. Next run like a challenger. Get a GOTV ground game set up. Model it after the Presidential Task Force some of us worked in last year. Tell people that Casey will be JUST LIKE SALAZAR. SALAZAR TOLD VOTERS IN COLORADO HE WOULD BE HIS OWN MAN. HE'S NOT. HE'S JUST ANOTHER RUBBER STAMP IN HARRY REID'S GANG. CASEY WILL BE THE SAME!!!!! TELL PEOPLE THAT. THEY WILL BELIEVE IT.

The first thing Rick has to do is shut up with his Bush bashing comments on Imus.

I hadn't heard about him Bush bashing. In fact, hadn't even heard about him making an appearance in Imus' radio program. So I googled it. OMG, LOL funny. Below snippet from a liberal website, not my views, but made me laugh.

Wednesday, November 2. 2005
WHOA. We're not sure where to even begin with this one. Rick Santorum called in unannounced to Imus today after Imus apparently referred to Rick as a "suit dummy." Rick wanted to refute Imus' characterization of him. We don't believe he was successful.
Here's the audio of a large chunk of the interview.
In the clip Rick does the following:

Says Libby, Cheney and Chalabi are all honest and didn't lie.
Claims Joe Wilson is a liar.
Says the CIA has a grudge against Chalabi and tried to destroy him.
Snaps out on Imus for challenging his claims (a recurring theme we've discussed before).
Compares not being able to safely drive from the Baghdad Airport into Baghdad today to conditions in Philadelphia in 1778 - to which, Imus points out there was no airport in Philadelphia then.
Says that Imus' wife called him and said she wanted to "do a threesome."
Calls Bill Frist, "a really decent, honorable man."

Besides pointing out the problem with Rick's comparison of Baghdad to Philadelphia in 1778, Imus has at least two great lines during the interview. Almost 5 minutes into the audio clip, in response to Rick's analysis of the situation in Iraq Imus says, "you have an IV of the neo-con Kool-Aid, don't you?" One minute later in the clip Imus accuses Rick of being "so misguided it's almost disturbing."
"Suit dummy" sounds much nicer in comparison.
http://santorumexposed.com/serendipity/index.php
Nov 2, 2005
By: Phil Singer, DSCC
This morning, Rick Santorum appeared on Imus in the Morning and defended the Bush Administrations motivation for going to war in Iraq. When pressed by Imus to comment on whether Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney and the rest of that crowd lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Santorum launched an all out defense of the Bush Administration. These misguided comments come just days after Libby was indicted for his role in the CIA leak case and after the total number of U.S. casualties topped the 2,000 mark.
http://www.dscc.org/news/roundup/20051102_santorumbush/
When Rick Santorum went on Don Imus' morning show on MSNBC this week, he received an unlikely de facto endorsement. Imus, who is known for disliking Republicans, particularly incumbent politicians, said: "I like Senator Santorum and I think you ought to be re-elected."
Imus' co-hosts, Charles and Bernie, backed up Sen. Santorum as well, with Charles saying the Imus team should all "hang" with the Senator. Bernie questioned Bob Casey, Jr., the likely Democrat opponent in the race, "I think we ought to stick with our guy [Santorum]. Just because he's [Casey] the governor's son, he's going to be a senator? That's nepotism." (MSNBC's "Imus in the Morning," 9/28/05)
http://richardksimon.redstate.org/