Rick Santorum, company man

Conservative Heritage Times
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In 2004, then Pennsylvania Congressman Pat Toomey challenged the U.S. Arlen Specter in the GOP Primary. It was the most serious intra-party challenge Specter had faced ever and Toomey, thanks to the help of the Club for Growth, was able to get near-ever with Specter in the polls. Perhaps an endorsement from then U.S. Rick Santorum, who was a fellow Catholic and shared many of the same ideas, would put Toomey over the top.

Instead, thanks to pressure from Karl Rove and the amoral party apparatchiks in the Bush II White House, Santorum not only endorsed his Senatorial collegue, he even cut a commercial for him as well. Sure enough Specter edged Toomey and went on to win re-election. Five years later Specter swicthed parties and became the key vote to give the nation Obamacare whereas a Rick Toomey in the U.S. Senate (two years too late) would not have done this. Thanks for nothing Rick.

There were many reasons why Santorum was crushed in 2006 by current U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. but one reason not readily explored is the fact for many conservatives in Pennsylvania, Santorum’s socialist-like act of party loyalty was a betrayal of everything he supposedly believed in both politically and in his faith as well. So they stopped supporting him, big time. What kind of man portrays himself as someone being of “family values” and then goes and endorses an abortionist for the U.S. Senate? A company man, that’s who. Who, when he lost his job, didn’t go back home to Pennsylvania but went to work for a think tank in the company town. Because that’s what he is and that’s the kind of President he’ll be.

You can sum up Rick Santorum this way: It’s more important to him to blow up Iranians than it is to stop abortion.