Santorum is one of the best candidates. He lost his seat mostly because he stuck by his principles, and because the press has worked tirelessly to demonize him.
He ran second to Mitt Romney through most of the last primary, and had the best chance to beat Mitt, but was prevented from doing so by the rest of the crowd—notably Newt Gingrich, who ran a persistent third but stayed in until he had forced Rick out, and then bowed out to Romney.
Wow! Someone who gets it! Thanks!
Nothing wrong with Rick, he did in fact, enthuse me when he ran per Spring 2012 and had a lot of good ideas, running on a shoestring budget. Sure, he does have his faults, he may have compromised with Spector from what I hear. As a person he’s A-1, we will have to see about how this all develops.
Newt managed to run second in three more states-- Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, everyone in his backyard. Santorum ran second everywhere else, except for a relative handful where the Paulbots crossed over.
What a joke, the idiot lost his seat by 17.5% because he is a phony.
Sorry, he was PRO minimum wage, consistently every time it came up for vote. He was PRO union. He was PRO "compassionate conservatism" (i.e., using money extorted from taxpayers to fund charitable programs via government instead of leaving them in the hands of churches and charitable organizations, where they BELONG). He was all for getting rid of Planned Parenthood (good), but stated clearly that he wanted to see tax money used instead to fund pro-adoption campaigns. MORE AND BIGGER GOVERNMENT every time, that's Rick.
I read every single word of Santorum's campaign website in 2012 and compared it with every single word of Gingrich's website. For all his flaws, from a limited government MORAL standpoint, Gingrich was light years ahead of Santorum in his grasp of what ails American government and his plans to fix it. Gingrich had a well-stated sensible approach, build on a solid structure of principles and processes, for getting government out of everything from education to commerce.
Santorum's campaign website offered only feel-good platitudes, fluff and frosting that once analyzed, revealed a house of cards. Reading the websites, separating the wheat from the chaff in each one, it was crystal clear that Santorum was the inferior candidate in experience, vision, and track record. Santorum is the one who should have bowed out if he had any true honor, humility, and love for his country.
As far as I'm concerned, Santorum is something worse than a loser; he's a game-thrower.
There was the mess with his kids living in VA and PA taxpayers paying for their schooling...I don't remember the details but he was cheating the system.
I don't like his holier-than-thou attitude when his wife lived with an abortion doc old enough to be her father before he married her.
IMO, the Sentorums are hypocrites and I'll never vote for him.