We can't lose Rick Santorum

I'm having a re-think about Rick Santorum. What would we do without him? Politics is a contact sport but it is also entertainment. Who is more entertaining than Ricky? He spent Friday campaigning with Sen. Bill Frist, the majority leader, talking about malpractice reform.

But Santorum's wife sued a doctor for $500,000 in 1999. She claimed that a botched spinal manipulation by her chiropractor led to back surgery, pain and suffering, and sued for twice the amount of a cap Santorum has supported.

Just after Frist left town he started running radio ads attacking Casey for saying he would have voted for a bill that Frist sponsored. That's gratitude.

This is the second media buy from the Santorum campaign and they both have attacked Casey on some made up issue. The first one was about the sneak and peek at the house he doesn't live in. Nothing positive about our visitor from Virginia.

He claims to be a conservative ( remember them?) but thinks it's OK for the government to spy on your phone calls, but not his. He also said that the way to support our troops is to put one of his bumper stickers on your car. At first he favored Intelligent design then he was against it. And he is a fiscal conservative, you know, against government spending but spends his time traveling the Commonwealth handing out pork checks. He has outside groups running ads that tell you what a great guy he is but they won't tell you who is paying for them. And he is running away from Bush.

I won't even get into the whole Terri Schiavo controversy other than to say what conservative would put the government in the middle of the most painful decision any family could face? But he did it with style. He flew to Florida on Walmart's corporate jet and blew off a voter forum about Social Security "out of respect for the family." But he found time to hit a few fund raisers and came away with a couple of hundred grand. One of the Philly columnists called it "Poetry in Motion."

What about the other guy? Bob Casey is boring, boring, boring.