If he doesn’t scare the left then why are they trying to kill him now?
Rush is spot on here. This is why they attacked him over the Kennedy speech - saying that he believes his faith is an integral part of him and that he’s not going to coat-check his faith at the door.
Haven’t we been wanting a Catholic to say just that for 50 years now? Say that his faith was more important to him than his politics and that even if he were elected president would stick by his faith instead of what Kennedy did?
Or am I mistaken?
I'd submit that they're not. For the left, picking on a guy like Santorum is like shooting fish in a barrel. They probably have a template column ripping on social conservatives for things like this . . . all they did was insert Santorum's name into the template and presto.
There are anti Santorum attack ads still running in Michigan this morning. He scares someone.
Nobody’s trying to kill Santorum. He can take care of that himself.
The problem is that he is exactly as establishment and big-government as Romney, and the social conservative thing was the only thing that he had going for him. But now that’s beginning to wear thin and he simply is not offering an alternative to Romney - because he can’t.