Republicans Going After Their Own: Santorum Targeted

[Me.]

This is encouraging as even they can't can't stand the likes of him anymore.

Republicans Turn on Santorum
By David Holman
Published 3/3/2006 12:08:26 AM

“Does party loyalty run both ways among Republican senators? That remains to be seen after Republican Majority for Choice (RMC), a pro-abortion caucus within the GOP, began a spirited attack on Sen. Rick Santorum this week.

RMC launched full- and quarter-page ads in nearly every major daily newspaper in Pennsylvania -- mock "Help Wanted" announcements calling for "Real Republican Candidates for Senate." The ad advocates "the Big Tent philosophy Ronald Reagan helped to build," and warns in bold, "Candidates who claim to be Republicans but instead use the Party to further their own personal or religious agenda need not apply." While the ad never names Santorum explicitly, its pro-abortion and anti-religious opposition to him is unmistakable.

With eight days between the launch of the ad campaign and the March 7 petition filing deadline for the Pennsylvania primaries, the search for "real" Republican primary opponents to Santorum appears half-hearted. Two thousand signatures would be required for a challenger to make it on to the ballot. Rather than a search, RMC's ad campaign could signal open hostility among Republican senators. This move comes in the midst of speculation that Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, will run as an independent in the Senate race.

Jennifer Blei Stockman, national co-chair of the RMC, confirmed that while the group is targeting Santorum, its strategy looks past the March 7 filing deadline. She told TAS Thursday that her group had "exhausted" all possibilities for candidates in the past several months. While RMC hopes another candidate "surfaces," Stockman said, "The ad is meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that we cannot continue electing candidates like Rick Santorum because he's not helping the party's image." Cont…

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9482

[Nickster]

1. I'd like to nominate Alan Keyes! No truer Republican could ever be found.

[rodeodance]

2. sic'em!

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Heh heh. Sit back and make a batch of popcorn. . .

and a pitcher of margaritas! This is gonna be fun.

:popcorn:

[phoebe]

4. when they investigate him re: the intern who died in his office due to

blunt trauma to the head is when "they go after their own"..meanwhile..who are they proposing for his replacement? Undoubtedly someone even more corrupt?

[Nickster]

5. Santorum had a dead intern too? Or are you thinking of Scarborough?

[Me.]

6. That's What I'm Wondering Too

And while we're on the subject, how is it that Joe "there's a dead intern in my office" Scarborough squeaked out of that one and lived another day to become a self righteous blathering head?

[phoebe]

7. apologies - have my head screwed on backwards..they are all starting

to look the same..

[Nickster]

8. LoL, I hear ya. No Worries. I got all excited there for a second.