Rick Santorum

In a telling, but non-scientific, survey of the Republican Party’s social conservative base, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) won the 2009 Values Voter straw poll with a 28 percent plurality of the vote. Five-hundred and ninety-seven people voted.
In October 2007, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) won the first straw poll held by this young event, [...]

Four-year-old Values Voter Summit attracted it’s biggest crowd yet.

As predicted this morning, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who was ousted in a landslide 2006 win by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), used his “prebuttal” to President Obama’s AFL-CIO speech to answer questions about a possible 2012 presidential bid. Ben Smith reports:
“The dynamic has changed,” Santorum said. “A lot of folks who might not have [...]

Here’s a little fuel to the rumors that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is looking at a return to politics, including a possible 2012 run for president. The Republican National Committee has picked Santorum to give a teleconference “pre-buttal” to President Obama’s address to the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh.

In our conversation, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) referred back to the Iran Freedom and Support Act — which he introduced in 2005, and which created a $10 million fund for support of Iranian democracy — as a starting point on how to support Iranian protesters.
“We haven’t used those funds, and we should use them,” [...]

I just spoke with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who’s now a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and asked him whether the party should keep open the option of filibustering Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
“I’ve never been for a filibuster,” said Santorum. “You can’t go out and argue, as we did, [...]

As buzz builds about a possible Pennsylvania Senate run by former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.), the foreign agents filings for Ridge Global LLC, reveal that he doesn’t live in his old state. According to his filing from June 12, 2008, Ridge’s residence is on Woodlawn Ave in Chevy Chase, Md., the tiny Montgomery County suburb [...]

As I was reporting out today’s piece on the push against State Department legal adviser-nominee Harold Koh, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) was writing this column about Koh.
Koh tops the list of Obama’s potential Supreme Court nominees. Is this what Sen. John Kerry meant when he once suggested that American policy must pass a “global [...]