Tom Ridge has many, many serious problems.
He used to be against queer "marriage", but flip-flopped (I believe in 2013) and became strongly in favor of queer "marriage".
He is a nominal Catholic who goes against the Catholic Church's anti-abortion teachings, just like Nancy Pelosi. As someone has said, as Governor of Pennsylvania, he did away with abortion mill inspections, and one result of that foolish decision was the evil, disgusting work of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, and his loathsome house of horrors.
Today, Ridge advocates for the Republican party to ignore the conservative "social issues", and just concentrate on his own sleazy, personal money-grubbing economic issues. My own guess is that he is really just a liberal demonic-rat inside, or that Obama and his NSA and other privacy invasion techniques exposed something embarrassing in Ridge's life, and held that over him to pressure him to publicly "change his views" on various issues.
He's a jerk.