Posted on 11/07/2006 4:30:10 AM PST by IrishMike
"Nought man could do, have I left undone."
The line from Robert Browning's poem "The Patriot" springs to mind as Pennsylvania's Senator Rick Santorum talks quietly but passionately during a last swing through the heart of Pennsylvania. The crowd in Carlisle, the county seat of vote-rich Cumberland County, filled with a decided mix of seniors, mullet-wearing young men, parents with squirming kids (including Santorum's six), and enthusiastic twenty-somethings.
They are witnesses to one of the most remarkable Senate candidates in the country as well as in Pennsylvania's long history, and they clearly know it. While Santorum has long-since emerged as the rare politician unafraid to speak his mind, his depth as a Senator continually on display, it is his refusal to buckle on the issue of national security in the face of defeat that has drawn such extraordinary notice within the state.
"In every other issue that concerned the Union, the voice which spoke in most potent tones was that of Pennsylvania," wrote Henry Adams in his history of the United States. Adams would have loved Rick Santorum, whose insistence on giving voice to what he and many others believe is the central issue of our time is potent, sobering -- and far from a guaranteed election-winner. Which hasn't stopped the Senator from returning to the subject again and again in a series of speeches across the state he titled, with a nod to Winston Churchill, "The Gathering Storm."
It is a cool, late autumn afternoon, the sun setting over the nearby Army War College. It is lost on no one here that the famous military institution, whose graduates include a veritable encyclopedia of famous generals from Pershing to Patton, Eisenhower, Bradley, Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks has been saved from the chopping block by Santorum's aggressive efforts on its behalf.
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If Santorum loses (and I'm still hoping he squeaks by - he ALWAYS runs from behind), he would make a terrific head of Homeland Security, IMO. He has always been a reliable ally of Bush and should be rewarded for his loyalty.
If Santorum doesn't take this race, he still needs to stay involved in ANY leadership role in this country. I wish he was running here in NYS.
He'll never make it to the SCOTUS, but it will be great to have him replace Negroponte.
Santorum should run for president in 2008. The guy is great .
WOO HOO VOTED FOR RICK THIS MORNING!
He's quite a trooper. If polls are right and Rick doesn't make it, I hope GWB will appoint him to some position where he can serve his country. Meanwhile PA will have to suffer with having a total empty suit for a junior senator.
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Bump for Rick!!
Santorum President in '08.
Santorum is head and shoulders above his opponent, and it would be a shame if he loses this election, but even if he does, I hope his life of public service will continue in some capacity. This country needs men like Rick Santorum, God bless him.
I'm still hoping and praying that Rick pulls it out. If the PA voters throw him overboard for that corpse called Junior, it'll eventually be the country's gain, because he's too good to leave on the sideline, especially now.
Hubby called he says the radio is reporting Santorum is neck and neck with Casey. The Radio also reported that some voting machines up Lancaster county were lighting up democrat when punching buttons for republicans. They said its fixed now . Santorum is aware ,he called into the RJ Harris show and was told then.
I'll have to disappoint Osama because I'm leaving now to vote for Santorum. Hopefully, the dems won't be able to figure out how to use the new voting machines.
Go Rick go!
Thanks for the reality check
PA gets what it deserves!
I hope President Bush does give him a nice job!
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