Santorum among GOP's vulnerable-arget for 6-seat swing

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0604240218apr24,1,5001382.story

Santorum among GOP's vulnerable
Pennsylvania senator target for 6-seat swing

By Jill Zuckman, Tribune national correspondent. Tribune national correspondent Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report from Des Moines
Published April 24, 2006

BLUE BELL, Pa. -- In the Centre Square firehouse, surrounded by firefighters in their starched dress blues and a bright red firetruck parked at an angle, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tried to turn Sen. Rick Santorum's brash, hard-edged demeanor into a softer sort of asset.

"When he tells you what he thinks, you know it's coming from his mind and his heart and his conscience and you know he's not just telling you what you want to hear," Giuliani told the supportive crowd in this politically crucial Philadelphia suburb.

But Santorum, the Republican junior senator from this politically divided state, is facing his most difficult re-election ever, due partly to an uncontrollable desire to speak his mind and partly to an unpopular president and an Iraq war seemingly without end. Of the 33 Senate races this year, the Democratic challenge to Santorum is the nation's marquee contest--promising big money, prominent visitors and a referendum on President Bush's policies.

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1. Get over it Rick! You got lucky in 1994!

It's not going to happen again!!!!

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2. Isn't that funny?

"Due to an uncontrollable desire to speak his mind".

I'll never forget the story of how he brought home a dead baby and showed his kids. Somebody posted it here on the DU, and I was so repulsed.

Time to go, Sanitarium.