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First off, my compliments to DJMacWOW for finding this. All Republicans should be glad when we get the opportunity to review past things said by Republican candidates now, **BEFORE** we choose our candidate, since we can be sure President Obama’s “opposition research” staff has lots of this already and will use it against us in the general election regardless of who wins the nomination.

Now a challenge to Writer33, napscoordinator, and any others connected with the Santorum campaign: somebody needs to go through this brochure, line by line, and identify 1) what items on the brochure are taken out of context, 2) what items were written for a Pennsylvania audience and can be defended as Santorum voting for what his home-state constituents wanted, and 3) which items (if any) represent an old position he has since changed. The whole brochure should be obtained and posted online; my guess is Santorum said a lot of other things Freepers will like if presented in full and in context.

Obvious examples include #9 on stem cell research — I'm all but certain Santorum was supporting adult stem cell research, not fetal stem cell research, but that needs to be clarified. If he was supporting fetal stem cell research then, we need to make sure he doesn't do that now.

Also, I think #2 can clearly be defended on conservative principles — we definitely **SHOULD** be promoting use of coal, because not only Pennsylvania but many other states make America the “Saudi Arabia” of coal and we need to be encouraging reliance on domestic rather than foreign fuel sources. Related to that, #2 makes clear that while lots of candidates were sitting on the fence about global warming or actually supporting steps that would damage our economy for no good reason, Santorum was promoting coal usage despite the greenhouse gas garbage.

I could cite other items on the brochure, but I'd rather see someone from the Santorum campaign do this work and give us something officially from Santorum’s mouth, not our guesses about what he meant to say.