Satin Doll -
"His [Santorum]
record while serving in Congress."
Really? Why don't you try some facts. Let's start with this.
Was Santorum a Senate Spendthrift?
..............."The National Taxpayers Union (NTU) has been rating members of Congress for 20 years. NTU is an independent, non-partisan organization that — per its mission statement — “mobilizes elected officials and the general public on behalf of tax relief and reform, lower and less wasteful spending, individual liberty, and free enterprise.” Steve Forbes serves on its board of directors.
For each session of Congress, NTU scores each member on an A-to-F scale. NTU weights members’ votes based on those votes’ perceived effect on both the immediate and future size of the federal budget. Those who get A’s are among “the strongest supporters of responsible tax and spending policies”; they receive NTU’s “Taxpayers’ Friend Award.” B’s are “good” scores, C’s are “minimally acceptable” scores, D’s are “poor” scores, and F’s earn their recipients membership in the “Big Spender” category. There is no grade inflation whatsoever, as we shall see.
NTU’s scoring paints a radically different picture of Santorum’s 12-year tenure in the Senate (1995 through 2006) than one would glean from the rhetoric of the Romney campaign. Fifty senators served throughout Santorum’s two terms: 25 Republicans, 24 Democrats, and 1 Republican/Independent. On a 4-point scale (awarding 4 for an A, 3.3 for a B+, 3 for a B, 2.7 for a B-, etc.),
those 50 senators’ collective grade point average (GPA) across the 12 years was 1.69 — which amounts to a C-. Meanwhile, Santorum’s GPA was 3.66 — or an A-. Santorum’s GPA placed him in the top 10 percent of senators, as he ranked 5th out of 50."..........................
........read more at the link. So, it doesn't appear you have your facts right.
You’re right. Wasn’t he up there 12 years? It’s kind of like Rick Perry. He was governor of Texas for 11 years and a few people picked maybe 3 things he did in that time they didn’t like and viciously attacked him for them, totally ignoring all the great things he did.
Santorum was tag-teamed by the little creep and Romney on his votes in the senate. I hate to think of the votes Romney would have made if he’d been in the senate.
Guess that’s why governors make the best candidates—no vote baggage.