[ohiogrammy]

What are most of your feelings on this man? Does he measure up to a Sarah Palin, Mike Pence, Fred Thompson?

[netmilsmom]

He is wonderful, but seriously, his kids and wife don’t need to go through this.

[Recon Dad]

I could answer that comparison until you added Fred to the mix. I like Rick and his politics, but I feel he's a supporting player who could not generate the enthusiasm needed.

Pence was awesome at the rally Saturday. Best speech of the event.

[LibFreeUSA]

Rick is a good man, but he (and other Republicans) suffered under the weight of Bush’s disastrous management of the Iraq war, when in 2006 he lost his PA incumbent Senate seat by 59% to 41% to RAT Bob Casey (who we’ve never heard from since then). Sarah will far out-draw Rick at any event, even in his own PA.

[counterpunch]

Rick Santorum lost reelection in his home state. Next.
It doesn’t matter if he “measures up” to the people you mentioned, because none of them measure up, either.

Sarah Palin already lost to 0bama, Fred Thompson can’t even get a campaign rolling, and Mike Pence is not high profile enough yet.

Mike Pence’s destiny, at least for now, is as Speaker of the House.
Right now he is the conservative leader of the House, but he is not the Republican leader. That can only send one message: House Republicans are not conservative.

What we should be concentrating on right now is giving them the message that this is unacceptable. The only way the GOP is going to change its image in the public eye back to that of a conservative party is if they get new, conservative leadership. And that means Mike Pence as House Republican Leader.

[Chickensoup]

I dont know much about DeMint but he seems a better option

[Jim Noble]

If he couldn't break 46% as an incumbent US Senator, that's a strong sign he's a loser.

And if there's one thing we don't need as the nominee in 2012, it's a loser.

[papertyger]

He blew national aspirations when he backed Specter. We all see what happens when he chose party over principle.

[PA Engineer]

What are most of your feelings on this man? Does he measure up to a Sarah Palin, Mike Pence, Fred Thompson?

I like them all and I like Rick. Rick and Melissa Hart were both targeted in a slime campaign during the last "throw them all out" movement. Moveon was responsible for both of their losses in 2004 (as well as a bunch of I am not voting this election spoiled republicans). Pennsylvania lost two of their best.

On that note I think a Palin-Santorum ticket would be viable.