I think you are trying to find fault with Santorum. He is not perfect. He has his faults.
If there was a perfect candidate I would support him. You can take any politician who has been in office for many years and find things he has done that you disagree with.
Santorum has supported and does support a balanced budget amendment. While I was not strongly in favor of it in the late 1990’s when it was introduced I look back now and see how much better our country would be now we if we had a balanced budget amendment.
Santorum believes in reducing government spending. Not as much as I would like but enough to be a big improvement on what is going on now.
If I though Santorum was a big spender who was just pretending to be a conservative I would not support him.
I do not believe that is the case.
“I respect your values and I am impressed that you home schooled your children.”
Nice of you to say all that, but the statement was from one of Santorum’s constituents who voted him out of office becasue he is a liar.