Maybe Pennsylvania conservatives owe Rick Santorum an apology.
Many stayed home in 2006 setting the stage for Democrat Bob Casey to take the senate seat Santorum held since 1995. Some even actively worked against him.
And it was all because Santorum endorsed incumbent Arlen Specter over insurgent Pat Toomey in the 2004 GOP senate primary. Yes, children Arlen Specter was a Republican in those days.
Santorum has now revealed to Specter’s consternation that the endorsement was contingent on Arlen supporting President Bush’s judicial nominees.
Could this be something Santorum is making up? Well, Specter unequivocally supported Bush’s judicial nominees, a thing that is biting him in his butt now that he has switched parties.
Congressman Joe “The Red Admiral” Sestak has crept to within two points of the party — that’s Democrat Party — endorsed Specter in the latest Rasmussen poll to be the Dem’s senate nominee this November.
With 10 percent undecided, I think I’d actually put money on The Red Admiral in the May 18 primary.