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Santorum 2012 bid undercut by landslide 2006 loss
January 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
Carrie Budoff Brown – Politico

At the heart of Rick Santorum’s campaign is a simple but compelling pitch: He’s a rock-ribbed conservative with a proven record of winning in a swing state.

That much is true.

But there’s one big flaw in his claim: His landslide defeat in his last race, the 2006 Pennsylvania Senate contest, undermines this central message of his surging presidential bid.

Yes, Republicans faced a toxic political environment that year, and Santorum, in hindsight, stood little chance of survival as a top GOP Senate leader in Washington who refused to distance himself from an unpopular President George W. Bush and his equally out-of-favor Iraq War.

But Santorum’s loss was a long time coming. By the time of his nearly 18-point loss — a stunning margin for a two-term incumbent — he had also alienated women voters, moderate Republicans and independents — not to mention the Democrats he had once won over. He lost almost every region of the state and almost every demographic group, including the blue collar workers he singles out on the campaign trail in 2012. And along the way, he compiled an encyclopedia of opposition research that his rivals can now use to raise doubts about his electability.
He drowned in charges of hypocrisy, living in Virginia with his family while a Pittsburgh-area school district picked up the tab for his children’s cyber-school education. He wrote a book in which he questioned the need for two-working-parent households, criticized couples that live together before marriage and blamed “radical feminism” for compelling women to work outside the home. He closed out his campaign by issuing daily doomsday warnings about the growing threat of “Islamic fascism” to a war-weary public.

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1. another loser

1. check this out

he definetly is a conservative:

As Mr. Santorum’s standing in the race for the Republican presidential nomination has been energized by his strong showing in the Iowa caucus, so too has the scrutiny of his activities since leaving the Senate. When he left office he was not especially wealthy, but records show he wasted little time fashioning a lucrative post-government career based largely on income from businesses that had benefited from his work in Congress.



another phony trying to live off our tax dollars!