The kind of pro-life leadership shown in the present Senate has been greatly enhanced with Rick Santorum (R-PA) on board, despite his equivocal support for pro-abortion freemason RINO Arlen Specter (R-PA) in his last re-election bid.
Santorum has been as strong as they get calling a spade a spade and defending the innocent, handicapped and infirm, chiefly the defenseless preborn destroyed by ALREADY approved abortifacients like Plan B (misnamed the 'morning after pill') and the starvation by drive-by media coverage of poor Teri Schaivo. His recent eloquent and plain truth that Plan B IS chemically and pharmaceutically a de facto abortifacient in a debate with abortoholic Bob Casey Jr, evinced courage and conviction.
If anyone needs to be re-elected it is Santorum. Pray for his victory as well as the longer shot of former Squeeler (ughhh!) receiver but great pro-life/pro-family man, Lynn Swan.
We Need His Kind - In praise of Rick Santorum
BY PEGGY NOONAN
Friday, November 3, 2006
It has been hard not to experience the election as a brute-force clash between two armies struggling over terrain their soldiers have come to see, inevitably-- they are at war, they are exhausted--as the location of the battle, but not its purpose. The nation is where the contest takes place; you can forget, in the fight, that its actual future is what's being fought for.
But here's an exception: the state of Pennsylvania, which has been this year a bright patch of meaning. Its U.S. Senate contest has been the great race of the cycle, the one about which conservatives in their hearts most care. And not only conservatives, but those who know, for whatever reason and in whatever way, that there is something truly at stake here, something beyond mere red team and blue.
That would be Sen. Rick Santorum. The sense among so many people--including politicians and journalists-- is that the Senate needs his sort, his kind.
The other day I called a former senator, a crusty old moderate Republican, and asked him if he liked Mr. Santorum. "No," he said, "I love him." When Mr. Santorum was new to the Senate, in 1995, he, the elder, seasoned legislator tried to mentor him. He wanted to help him survive. Mr. Santorum was grateful and appreciative, "but he kept speaking his mind!"
The former senator: "The political scientists all say to be honest and stand for principle, that's what people want. And he was exactly that, and he's about to get his head handed to him." He chuckled then with what seemed the reflexive pleasure of one pol about to see another take a tumble. Then he stopped. It was sad, he said.
I end with a story too corny to be true, but it's true. A month ago Mr. Santorum and his wife were in the car driving to Washington for the debate with his opponent on "Meet the Press."
Their conversation turned to how brutal the campaign was, how hurt they'd both felt at all the attacks. Karen Santorum said it must be the same for Bob Casey and his family; they must be suffering. Rick Santorum said yes, it's hard for them too. Then he said, "Let's say a Rosary for them." So they prayed for the Caseys as they hurtled south.
A friend of mine called them while they were praying. She told me about it later, but didn't want it repeated. "No one would believe it," she said. But I asked Mr. Santorum about it. Sure, he said, surprised at my surprise. "We pray for the Caseys every night. We know it's as hard for them as it is for us."
Personally I'll shed no tear for the careerists of either party who win or lose, nor for the BlackBerryed gargoyles in the second row of the SUV who tell them how to think and where to stand. That means this election night will be, for me, a dry- eyed affair.
But if Rick Santorum goes down to the defeat all expect, I will feel it. Like the crusty old moderate Republican, I know a national loss when I see one.
Mrs. Noonan is a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal and author of "John Paul the Great:
Remembering a Spiritual Father" (Penguin, 2005), which you can order from the OpinionJournal bookstore. Her column appears Fridays on OpinionJournal.com.
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