Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

“I think the difference between 2006 and 1994 is that people have gotten to know Santorum better. He is slick, he is personable; he is a better human being than his record would indicate. But his record and his wild statements create major obstacles for him. He has long tested the outer limits of acceptability for a Republican in Pennsylvania, and he has jumped off the cliff to please the right wing too many times. The maddening Democratic factionalism in Pennsylvania may yet elect him, but we have a good chance to defeat him precisely because he has made himself so well known. ”

-Representative Mark B. Cohen on Rick Santorum (from comments).

Representative Cohen makes more good points in this paragraph than most of us could hope to make in a week. His point on Democratic factionalism in Pennsylvania is spot on in that it, more than anything else, makes a third Santorum term possible. This may seem an odd point for me to highlight in that I’m not backing the consensus choice for Senator in the upcoming primary. So be it. The arguments and passions of a primary are vital to the strength of a party, but I think we are all interested in seeing the bar moved up for a change, regardless of who we may be supporting in the primary. I’m not planning to watch Santorum win again while I suck my thumb, waiting for the perfect Democrat.

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