I already posted the newspaper excerpt from 1990. Why don't you look it up before attacking me? In that excerpt, it describes how his initial position was to oppose abortion only in the last trimester when it was viable that the fetus was a baby. He quietly withdrew this position paper. He had also called himself a "progressive conservative" at that time. If you cannot find my post, please let me know and I will pull it up for you in the evening.
You posted a vanity, right here. Are you too lazy to include a link to your charges? I’m supposed to instead search the entire site in the hopes I can find some thread you posted in the past?
Real posts have links to articles, and we can read them. Vanities are usually just someone’s opinions, stated as if they matter. If you want your vanity post to contain real information, you should provide links.
Notice how I provided a link to refute your charge.
And not that you really seem to care, since your real agenda has nothing to do with understanding the life of Rick Santorum, but there was a time when Rick first entered politics when, like most newcomers, he found that it was easy for advisors to push all sorts of positions, and how important it was for him to study and present his own opinions.
And yes, there are times when Rick does come off more as a progressive conservative. I find that a failing of a lot of really religious social conservatives, even those who at their heart are fiscal conservatives. They want a social justice that comes with their religion, and sometimes feel like power of government is useful to aid in that cause.
Rick has even run seminars on how to adopt Catholic beliefs into governance (I’m not saying that quite right). Catholics do tend to be social activists. And in 2006, when we was trying to appeal to an electorate that was decidedly less conservative than he, he also adopted a lot of the “compassionate conservative” lingo, and pointed to the rare votes which backed that concept.
Personally, I don’t think he had a chance, but doing so I believe hurt him because it alienated the only group that was going to possibly save him, after they had already abandoned him for his support of Specter — something you also attack him for. I fault him as well, but saw it as one of those personal things that doesn’t really reflect political philosophy. It’s easier not to have friends when you are playing anonymous on the internet.