Rick Santorum's spectacular rise in Iowa has earned him new mainstream media attention as the anti Romney candidate. Santorum is now a solid top tier GOP candidate for president. As a conservative here in Pennsylvania that possibility must be hard to swallow. We know firsthand the true Santorum record all too well.
During his time as Senator from Pennsylvania, Santorum earned a reputation as the ultimate Washington D.C. insider. He was a fixture in the Washington K-Street lobby scene. In fact, he was the point man for the Senate GOP leadership. Santorum bet heavily on Washington D.C. pork and firmly believed that it was his duty to bring back billions of dollars to Pennsylvania to help ensure his re-election in a relatively moderate state. Santorum's record also includes voting in favor of the Medicare Part D legislation that created the prescription drug entitlement program for seniors.
As you can see during his time in Washington D.C., Santorum did his part to further grow the size and scope of the Federal government. Hardly conservative credentials and definitely not the kind of leadership we need to reign in the size and scope of a Federal government run-a-muck.
If his record don't convince conservatives that Santorum is not the conservative you think he is, then consider Santorum's ultimate political sin of supporting RINO Arlen Specter over conservative Pat Toomey in the very close 2006 Pennsylvania primary. When you add it all up, you got a record that can't be trusted by conservatives that want real reform, Constitutional integrity, and smaller government.
Since his time in Washington, Santorum's record hasn't changed much.
After his 2006 landslide loss by more than 700,000 votes for re-election failed here in Pennsylvania, Santorum took on a job paying $400,000 helping to consult and manage a major HMO, Universal Health Services, where he did very little constructive to stop serious financial fraud among other autocracies according to federal regulators.
Using his pull as a former senator who knew how to milk the system, Universal Health Care hired Santorum helped to secure millions of dollars in federal grants and money for the troubled hospital giant. During the early months of his presidential campaign, his former employer, Universal, also became his second largest campaign contributor as well. All of this only illustrates the cesspool of revolving door politics that exist in Washington. Santorum was voted out of office once by voters, disgusted with him.
Rather than being a breath of fresh air, Rick Santorum's politics is just more of the same old rotten Washington revolving door stuff. A disgraced senator who was voted out of office by a landslide because he couldn't even keep his own job, let alone jobs in his home state of Pennsylvania, where steel mills and manufacturing closed down in droves, now claims to be the new economic Messiah that America needs. Not hardly.
The only positive thing in all of this is that Rick Santorum is never, ever, ever, going to win the Republican nomination or even for that matter be elected president. When you're the worst kind of politician like Rick Santorum who abuses the public trust and the system for you own gain the only direction is straight down.
Santorum enjoy the 15 minutes of fame last week in Iowa. Now it's time to move on to more serious candidates in other state primaries where many voters take voting far more seriously than the type of jerks who would vote for someone like a Santorum in Iowa.
Now Santorum thinks he should return to Washington as president. But Pennsylvania conservatives understand all too well that a big government, RINO can't change his stripes.
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