Santorum, Casey Race in National Spotlight

[deadparrot]

ASPINWALL, Pa. - Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record) is a rising Republican star Democrats desperately want to take down in 2006. So far, they say he is making their job easy.

Santorum, a conservative from Pennsylvania who is chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, can't seem to avoid negative attacks even as he promotes his new book, "It Takes a Family."

State treasurer Robert Casey Jr., his likely Democratic opponent, is ahead in state polls. He's quietly raising millions for what is expected to be the closest Senate race in 2006.

Casey, like Santorum, opposes abortion, and he has name recognition from his late father, Gov. Robert P. Casey. He was recruited to run by national party leaders seeking to take out a Republican Party leader.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050814/ap_on_el_se/santorum_casey_race

[TaleWgnDg]

1. This says it ALL about Santorum . . .

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This says it ALL about Santorum, and I highly recommend it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x5736







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[shance]

2. Why no mention of Chuck Pennacchio? He's a Democrat in the race?

He's also a Pro-choice, grade A Democrat.

[eggman67]

10. Probably because he has no chance of being the nominee.

Casey, Jr. is pretty much a forgone conclusion. I'm looking forward to 2006 here, it should be interesting.

[bleedingheart]

12. I am voting for Pennacchio in the Primary....

[Placebo]

3. Santorum is going down.

[HockeyMom]

4. Bringing home Dead Fetuses,

lamenting that wives shouldn't work, stay home, make more babies, etc, etc. The man is living in the 18th Century.

[Placebo]

6. It's borderline dementia.

If not a full-blown case of it!

[liberaliraqvet26]

5. Casey is going to wipe the floor with him...

I really wish people would stop treating Casey like he is so terrible because of a disagreement on one issue. The party is not a special interest group and we are way too smart to be one issue voters. NARAL didn't care too much about our party when they endorsed Chaffee over Langevin in R.I. If they had any common sense they would see that despite Chaffee's personal beliefs he reports to Frist & Delay.

[meow2u3]

8. Casey is Old Left--Santorum is a far right hypocrite

Paleoliberals (Old Left) are generally economic liberals and social moderate-conservatives, but at least Casey's brand of pro-life melds the sanctity of life with the quality of life; it's either both or neither.

Casey's position (after translation): Real pro-lifers are pro-life after birth, too.

Santorum's position (after translation): Pro-life really means punish the woman and the kid for having sex. The man gets off scot-free.

[liberaliraqvet26]

11. Interesting way to look at it

[ray of light]

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[Mnemosyne]

9. My requisite scumtorum post...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

hey! spellcheck tried to make scumtorum - santorum! lol, even spell check thinks it's nearly the same. hehehehehe