I’m so sick of people like you distorting the facts. Are you on Gingrich’s payroll or something?
Santorum endorsed Romney for the same reason many FReepers here endorsed Romney when it became apparent that the nominee was going to be either McCain or Romney. And Santorum, based on his relationship in the Senate, hated McCain’s guts, like many other conservatives did. Would you be spewing the same crap about Santorum had he endorsed McCain? I’m sure you would have tried to link Santorum then to McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kennedy, etc. Please tell me who YOU voted for in the General Election. Was it McCain? If so, I’m going to tie you also to supporting McCain/Feingold and McCain/Kennedy. I guess Sarah Palin is for those things two since she campaigned with McCain on the ticket /sarc
So cut the crap with your “Rick was campaigning for Romneycare in 2008” garbage.
As for “taking one for the team”, that’s what Newt essentially said when he stated he would have “reluctantly voted for TARP”.
“This is how I took it: They [the McCain campaign] really are fighting against the base of the Republican party, the conservatives in the Republican Party, that’s what they see this as. Because certainly that’s what I represented in many respects,” Santorum said. “So I sort of said, ‘Wow, this really is a battle for who we are going to be as a party.’”
Santorum also insists that his opposition to McCain cuts deeper than the issue of personal animus or an objection to the Arizona senator’s temper. “It’s unpredictability — the lack of a woven or synthesized worldview. It is the compulsion to do what everyone in Washington, if you’re Republican, knows will get you good press. And you know what that is: beat up on a Republican, take on a Republican,” he said. “This is a man who is not in principle a conservative.”
Uh, Santorum endorsed romney while huckabee was still in the race...
As for “taking one for the team”, that’s what Newt essentially said when he stated he would have “reluctantly voted for TARP”.
reluctantly - after Geitner and many others made the case to him and other republicans that a financial meltdown, global in proportions, would result without it.
FACTS, REALITY. Try 'em you like 'em. Or maybe not.
TRUTH hurts I see. Mr anti-abortion himself campaigning for pro abortion candidate. My, my values be damn, I gotta take one for team.
Some much for his values being #1. Compromise comes first. And so much for his not liking Romneycare.