WHY ever not? He must be thoroughly vetted, especially because he flied under radar up to now.
For most people, including me, Rick Santorum was just a disgraced senator, who badly lost his reelection with 41% to 59% in 2006 ...
The more I'm reading about his record, the less I like him.
Santorum is the guy who wrote in more than $3.5 billion in earmarks during his career. "Fiscal conservative"? Hardly.
Santorum is the guy , who cheated his state of almost $100,000 for his personal use and never gave back the money.
During his years in the Senate, Santorum raised his family in northern Virginia, and not in his Pittsburgh suburb house he claimed to be his main residence. Pennsylvania voters were shocked when they found out the Penn Hills School District of that suburb had paid out $72,000 for the home cyberschooling of five of Santorum’s kids, hundreds of miles away in a different state. Santorum never returned the money.
Santorum is the guy who put up a "charity", which was indeed only a money scam.
In 2001 Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the 'Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, ' which rose more than $1 million. Where did the majority of the charity’s money go? In salaries and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum’s finance director Rob Bickhart.
A responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants, but the 'Operation Good Neighbor Fund' contribution was less than 36 percent. The charity – which didn’t register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law, was finally disbanded in 2007.
I can go on and on ...
I can't tell much of a difference between Romney and Santorum, if one were to look at their actual roles in their former government positions. If they both were as great as some of their supporters claim, then they would not only have been reelected repeatedly, they would be the standard for what Conservatism is, like Reagan was.
Santorum is so far removed from that definition that it would be a disgrace to Reagan to even remotely align him with the greatest Conservative of our time.
which rose more than $1 million.
Oh well. He is raising a million a day now so that is extreme old news. You have no idea what it takes to run an organization so until you do than you cannot say one word about President Santorum.