Santorum has no ideological consistency, that might be why he suffered a worse defeat than Christine ODonnell, a 17.4% wipe out, and he was the incumbent!
Santorum was anti-Reagan during the Reagan years and mocked his supporters as right wingers, Santorum switched to pro-life in 1990 to run for office, although he had been involved in liberal republican politics for years.
Santorum campaigned as a “progressive conservative originally, Santorum endorsed and campaigned with Specter in his 1996 presidential run to throw out life from the GOP platform.
Santorum was devoted to Specter and did what he could to keep Toomey out of that Senate seat, supporting Specter in 2004 AND 2010, when we were making historical gains for conservatives.
Santorum was a loyal and dedicated Romney man before he made his own run, which many saw as a feint by a pro-union rino trying to recover from his history making rejection from his Senate seat and win a job as a media figure, if not a vice-presidential choice for Romney.
Santorum endorsed Romney last time only a few days before Romney dropped out. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Rubio, and Paul Ryan, and I think Bobby Jindal endorsed Romney at the beginning. Should we discount them from future politics.
I’m nervous. With this line of thinking, it’s going to be Jeb.
btw, there are a number of people I like as much as Santorum, but I fear they will get the same treatment, because they are not a particular conservative’s favorite candidate, so they, too, will be demonized.