I had another observation about the criticisms of Santorum. Where Santorum went wrong was the times when he went along with his party when it was going wrong. Voting for appropriations bills that hadn't had Planned Parenthood funding stripped out of them, endorsing his GOP colleague for re-election, supporting No Child Left Behind and the Medicare Part D entitlement. These were Republican things that the party should have done better.
By contrast most of the criticisms of Romney, Gingrich, and Paul are on things where they departed from the party to join the Democrats: government healthcare, the couch commercial with Nancy Pelosi, opposing support of Israel, support for abortion rights, etc. (I leave out TARP, which was a bi-partisan boondoggle, supported by Bush, McCain and Obama.)
Is it so credible to believe that Gingrich wouldn't have voted for that appropriations bill? That Romney would have opposed Medicare Part D or No Child Left Behind?
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