Report Shows Santorum Smells Defeat in 2006

A Roll Call report shows that the Senate's resident wild-eyed right-wing lunatic, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R), is starting to get extremely nervous that he is going to get booted out of office in 2006.

A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed Santorum's opponent, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Bobby Casey (D), already has a 14 point lead over Santorum. Santorum has responded by deploying his media consultant to attack Casey for supposedly not answering questions. This, despite Philadelphia Daily News columnist Gar Joseph writing Friday that he got straight answers from Casey when he called to ask his position on five controversial issues. "We got straight answers. No spin. No Kerry-style nuance,” Joseph wrote. That apparently bothers the extremist Santorum, whose consultant actually criticized Casey for being "so adept at taking the middle positions." As if it's a bad thing to be a mainstream politician instead of an insane ideologue like Santorum.

Santorum has a lot to answer for in his upcoming race. It was the supposedly "compassionate conservative" Santorum who publicly said he wanted poor people to suffer. "Making people struggle a little bit is not necessarily the worst thing," Santorum said in justifying his efforts to slash welfare. It was Santorum who crassly likened homosexuality to bestiality, prompting criticism from his own party. It was Santorum who tried to eliminate all minimum wage protections for roughly 7 million workers. And it was Santorum who tried to rip off taxpayers by attempting to force a Pennsylvania school district to pay for his children's education, even though he has abandoned his home state and become a fulltime resident of Virginia.

This guy is a neanderthal-esque hypocrite of the worst kind. He is totally out-of-touch with the concerns of ordinary people. I realize Casey isn't perfect on every issue, but he is tremendously better than Santorum. Mainstream Americans should do everything we can to finally end Santorum's political career in 2006.