Meanwhile in Kentucky…..there is great rejoicing.  I’m hoping these can be served at the inaugural ball. 
http://www.grist.org/list/2011-12-28-foot-long-shrimp-take-over-gulf-of-mexico 

Remind me again why Santorum vouching for Specter is just dues-paying, but Newt vouching for Scozzafavawava means he needs to get strangled from the back seat of the car?

Can I vote for the dog?

Hooray for Rick Santorum, Hooray for Stacy McCain and Hooray for America!  rick looks terrific and his daughter Elizabeth is indeed very lovely! The future Ambassador to Vanuatu also looks fantastic! Keep up the great work, Stacy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9wOk2oUQCI&feature=player_embedded

via wiki
“He[arlen specter] met with many conservative Republican senators, and based on
assurances he gave them, he was recommended for the Judiciary
Committee’s chairmanship in late 2004. He officially assumed that
position when the 109th Congress convened on January 4, 2005.”

can you say alito and roberts?

Yes, that was the clip in Mortimer Snerd’s reply. This is equivalent to Newt’s endorsement of Dede.
If you want to get ultra-puritanical, you’ll have to support someone else. Alas, Snow White is not in the running.

All I can think of when looking at this post is…wait, I forget, …some girl named Tabby or Tabitha something or other.  

It’s not a stretch.

Santorum knew Specter was the one that blew up Robert Bork, which meant the continuation of Roe and its  problematic judicial progeny.

So he knew that Specter was a problem.

Jacobson’s point is that it was NOT unforeseeable that Specter would cause us grief.

As for the SPECIFIC legislation encompassed by what has become known as obamacare, sure Santorum was in the dark as to that.  But Santorum KNEW that Specter was apt to go off the reservation.  In fact, having access to Specter’s maneuvering behind the scenes, he KNEW far more about Specter than we did.

The reason Santorum backed Specter was that he was persuaded, as others were, that Toomey would be defeated.   It should be noted that Toomey barely beat that jerk Sestak, whereas Pennsylvania’s Republican Governor handily prevailed in that exact same election.

Toomey’s time had yet to come.

Absent the disaster of obamacare and the wider obama economic disaster, it’s most unlikely that Toomey would have won a general.

Jacobson’s point is fair, particularly in light of the garbage thrown Gingrich’s way.

RSM has REPEATEDLY condemned and blasted Gingrich for NY 23, yet now he’s out there supporting Santorum while overlooking that Santorum provided political cover for the guy that blew up Judge Bork’s nomination, {which proved so CRUCIAL in relation to Roe}, for it needs to be recalled and understood well, the guy that ultimately took what would be Judge Bork’s place was ANTHONY KENNEDY.

RSM has a good deal to explain, specifically why overlook Santorum’s sin related to Toomey, while ripping repeatedly into Gingrich related to NY23.

LOL! She was, of course, until that “video” popped up on the net.

Remind me again why people are insisting Toomey, who supported Sotomayor, is a conservative?

Ask Toomey why he supported Sotomayor, who doesn’t believe our rights come from God. In other words, we’re all just walking sacks of meat with no rights unless the mob says so. Ask Toomey that.

Well, you do a Hell of a job, and we appreciate your hard work.

Ditto to Bob Belvedere below.  Besides, Specter was an incumbent of his own party who had endorsed and helped him when Santorum needed it.  And Rick didn’t talk trash about Toomey or the conservatives who supported him, unlike Newt.

SSSSHHH!  Be quiet, or they can’t hear what the voices in their heads are telling them.

Don’t expect an honest answer out of a Gingrich supporter unless you buy it from them.

Let’s be honest, if we’re looking for a circular firing squad here, you can find something on everyone.  Mr. Paul’s nuttery twenty years ago, Mr. Gingrich’s flip-flopping, Mr. Perry’s flailing, Mr. Romney’s squishiness, Mrs. Bachmann’s shrillness, and Mr. Huntsman’s uselessness.

OTOH, who would want to survive this shit and face Mr. Obama in November?

It is a stretch. “Santorum should have known” is a stupid argument to make. Specter was the senior Senator from PA, and the politics of the time dictated what he did.

Second, there’s this assumption that Toomey was a shoo-in for the general, he would have lost.

Third, comparing state politics and what Newt did is not the same. Santorum was bound in certain ways where Newt was acting as a free agent in NY-23.

I find the whole talking point laughable … yes, let’s go down this rabbit hole. Santorum is held responsible for what Specter did 4 years later. OK, by this logic, Santorum is then “responsible” for whatever opinions Justice Alito and Roberts make about Obamacare. Since, it was the outcome of endorsing Specter.

Its sloppy argumentation, and frankly something I would expect from liberals. “Santorum should have known” so, now crystal balls are a requirement for running for office.

Mr. Paul’s nuttery twenty years ago is not really relevant. It’s Mr. Paul’s nuttery in the here and now that makes him unelectable and insures he could never be the GOP nominee. The earlier nuttiness is just icing on the cake.

Second, there’s this assumption that Toomey was a shoo-in for the general, he would have lost.

Yeah, there’s no way a guy with Toomey’s conservative credentials could ever have won a Senate seat in a state like Pennsylvania.

Not in 04, he would have not. He barely won in 2010 … PA is blue. On election night, it did not look good for Toomey … when he was originally projected to win by 5-8 pts.

It was a nail biter. Maybe, do some research before snarking.