Dean's World

While a lot of people associate Rick Santorum with anti-gay comments, I've held a grudge against Santorum for an entirely different reason: he supported the ultra liberal, tax hiking Arlen Specter. I don't fall for candidates that often (and seeing as I'm nearly always working for one, that doesn't say a lot for the candidates out there), but the two that really affected me in the last few years were Herman Cain and Pat Toomey. They were both such decent men who took their issues, in both of their cases fiscal conservatism was the priority, so seriously. It was Cain's first race, for the retiring Zell Miller's seat, and he ran against two sitting Congressman. His name id was only at 50% when he lost in July with 30% of the vote (beating one of the Congressman and almost forcing the other into a runoff). It was a great first race and he'll certainly be back. Toomey was a different story. He was running against an incumbent and had the state's other Senator and the President of the United States line up against him. It was a squeaker despite this and Toomey supporters are right to hold Santorum and Bush accountable for Toomey's loss.

Anyway, I was looking forward to running into Santorum and asking him why he did what he did. I saw him yesterday at the Republican Jewish Coalition event and got to ask him my question on video. I can't say that he gave me a very straight answer but at the very minimum, I got him to admit that Arlen Specter was not going to be more conservative should he win in November, despite Santorum's support.

To view my interview, click this link.