<p>Hey pirate-boy…let’s argue. I thought Santorum’s performance on Meet the Depressed this morning was darn good. I’ve been hard on him in previous CC posts, as you can see from the link below…but I also knew Bob Casey Jr’s father when he was governor…and Bob Casey Jr. is no Bob Casy Sr., despite holding (supposedly) the same views. He was not good today on MTP.</p>
<p>Annent your frequent prognostication challenge: I say Santorum beats Casey Jr. in November. I will “make book” on it to the tune of 100 ITYs.</p>
<p>I suspect that this campaign will get very very ugly…and I suspect that ultimately Santorum will win. Do we want this guy as a Presidential candidate? That is what Santorum is being groomed for. I find him frightening and I want him out. My vote goes to Casey.</p>
<p>Did anyone ask him about his kids schooling? He owns an unoccupied home in PA and for several years may his Pa school district pay for his children’s private schooling in Va or Md where his permanent house is. It caused quite a stir when first revealed by the press.</p>
Yes. It only caused a stir in the ITBW press. He pointed out that he still owns and pays taxes (including school taxes) in PA. He lives in DC because, well, that’s where his job is. And he wants his five children to grow up with him. Pretty easy.</p>
<p>I didn’t see the whole thing, but I thought Casey did much better than I had expected. Casey is not anywhere near as slick a guy as Santorum, and it took a lot of guts to go side-by-side on Meet The Press.</p>
<p>Casey is a wonderful, smart, hardworking pol, by the way. Santorum is smart and hardworking, too, but sort of the opposite of wonderful. While I would not be willing to bet a lot of money that Casey holds his lead, I support him enthusiastically. It’s really time to drive a stake through Santorum’s heart and Presidential ambitions.</p>
<p>And the school thing is anything but an Inside-The-Beltway issue. He was paying taxes on a $50,000 house in PA, i.e., probably about $1,000/year or less, and pulling down something like $25,000 in payments for his kids’ cyber schools. Nothing wrong with him living in VA, or with his kids living with him, of course; what was wrong was exploiting a very generous pro-home-schooling policy in the PA district rather than going with the policy of the district in which his kids actually lived. This was pure pig-at-the-troughery. He stopped it as soon as he was caught, because it was indefensible.</p>
<p>Pretty vulgar stuff, EK. Whatever turns you on. I’ve mentioned Sen. Bob Kerrey’s (that’s the real war hero Kerrey, btw, not that other one) derogation of Santorum before in other threads: "Santorum…isn’t that Latin for ***hole? That is at least clever, if inaccurate.</p>
<p>Yes Driver he is paying taxes on his Penn Hills home but lets look at some facts.
The Santorum family has five children and the Penn Hills home has 2 bedrooms.
The Penn Hills home is valued at $91,000 for tax purposes and their home in Virginia is valued at $757,000.
The taxes on the Penn Hills home is $2000/yr while the school district paid $38,000/yr tuition for the Santorum children.
The tax rolls show that both the Santorums and Bart & Alyson DrLuca list the Penn Hills address for voter registration purposes.</p>
<p>And since the evidence shows overwhelmingly that the Virginia home is in fact the family’s residence, why don’t the Santorum’s get that school district pay for their children’s tuition? They certainly are paying lots of property tax on that house and deserve reimbursement from them if the Va law requires it.</p>
<p>driver, has santorum done anything you DON"T like…just wondering
your defense of him is quite interesting…</p>
<p>santorum is not all that bright, is a big flipflopper and is a bad leader, but hey, if you think he is all that, no matter what we say, you will ignore it, cause truth matters not</p>
<p>I remember a few years ago the Washington Post ran an article on how his wife had an emergency delivery in her 20th week with their fourth child, who died within two hours. They then took the dead baby home and spent the evening rocking it, singing songs to it, and even passing it around to the other children.
Now I’m not going to say that I care how the Santorum family grieves, but what the hell?</p>
<p>Obviously, those who know my politics know that I really dislike Santorum. But, on MTP this morning, I noticed that Tim Russert (a guy I really like, especially his analyses on Today) spent most of his time attacking Santorum with questions. And then during Santorum’s answers, Casey would chime in with a “let me say this about that…” comment. Only once did Russert launch into Casey in the same way he did with Santorum.</p>
<p>And while Santorum’s answers were the Administration talking points (including the new buzz word: Islamo-fascist), all Casey could offer was “we need to hold the Administration accountable.” (Ex: TR: “Mr. Casey, do we need more troops or less troops?” BC: “We need to hold the Admistration accountable.”)</p>