Santo didn’t think it through before the debate on how he would respond effectively to those obvious questions about his big gov spending and voting record. He was unprepared. He got bogged down by it.
“Obvious questions” tag-teamed from the biggest earmarker in Congress (that is Ron Paul, btw) and from Willard the Massachusetts liberal who ran to the left of the late Ted Kennedy and was co-architect together of the largest spending bill of all (that is RomneyCare/ObamaCare).
And then there was that audience bought and paid for by Willard and the Mormons with the libs at CNN calling the shots...
All in all, Rick the Conservative Catholic did fine.