John Sununu, a former White House chief of staff and a former governor of New Hampshire, said DeWine was angry that the super-PAC tied to Romney aired a commercial criticizing Santorum for a vote in support of granting voting rights to felons. Sununu... Full Article at Columbus Dispatch

Santorum Friday, deploying former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu to whack Santorum just minutes ahead of the former Pennsylvania senator's big endorsement from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who had been in the Romney camp. Sununu whacked both... Full Article at The Politico

Democratic takeover of a Republican seat. First-term Sen. Scott Brown is good-looking, personable and politically astute. He separates himself just enough from his party to make a credible case of being “independent” without causing Republican voters... Full Article at The Rothenberg Political Report

Are you practicing what you preach? 4. In 2000 you supported the pro-union, pro-choice Arlen Specter for president. Why? 5. An independent fact-checker rated your assertion that Mitt Romney supports cap-and-trade a false. “While Romney appears to have... Full Article at The Washington Post

Though he voted with the union around 50 percent of the time in his first few years in Congress, by the end of his career he had accumulated a twelve percent lifetime rating. Longtime moderate Republican (later Democratic) Senator Arlen Specter, by... Full Article at The New Republic

Make Him a Moderate: Mr. Romney’s top aides appear to believe that they can question the basic premise of Mr. Santorum’s campaign by suggesting that he is not as purely conservative as he suggests. One avenue is to remind reporters and others that Mr.... Full Article at The New York Times

At the end of 2006, his last year in office, Santorum had a 13 percent lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO. That was about even, in labor's view, with most of the Republican caucus. The highest-rated GOP senators at the time were Lincoln Chafee (54... Full Article at The Weekly Standard

Santorum's 1998 Senate vote to confirm liberal Sonia Sotomayor to a U.S. appeals court a decade before Obama elevated her to the Supreme Court is likely to be in focus. And Santorum's support of moderate Senator Arlen Specter over conservative Pat... Full Article at Reuters

Rick Perry and Herman Cain, he is experienced enough in national politics to avoid the landmines. Scandal-free and gaffe-averse, Santorum is harder for Romney to explode. Yes, Santorum has tender spots for Romney to exploit -- spending, support for... Full Article at FOX News

But Romney's campaign said Monday it expects the field to tighten as it raises questions about Santorum's record in Washington. Already, it is beginning to try to sow doubts by saying Santorum supported Arlen Specter, a pro-choice Republican senator... Full Article at Livingston Daily

As of late Tuesday afternoon, the Department of State’s filings did not include Democrat Joe Sestak, who represented the district for four years, beginning in 2007. Instead of running for Congress again in 2010, Sestak ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Full Article at The Delaware County Times

Santorum's 1998 Senate vote to confirm liberal Sonia Sotomayor to a U.S. appeals court a decade before Obama elevated her to the Supreme Court is likely to be in focus. And Santorum's support of moderate Sen. Arlen Specter over conservative Pat Toomey... Full Article at NewsMax

Santorum also faced criticism during the New Hampshire and South Carolina primary campaigns for opposing right-to-work legislation, an issue Romney aides expect to re-emerge. They also expect Santorum's endorsement of then-Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen... Full Article at MassLive.com

It's as clever a "magic bullet" that goes in four directions at once as the one that Arlen Specter wrote about in the Warren Commission report. Steve, when you posted about this earlier you indicated a call was in the Romney headquarters asking for... Full Article at MSNBC Blogs

For each of those candidates, the scrutiny proved to be too powerful. "Rick Santorum's record will be aired, and a lot of conservatives will be disillusioned that he supported Arlen Specter, a pro-choice Republican in the state of Pennsylvania," Brown... Full Article at U.S. News & World Report

—Santorum voted in 1999 for a bill "disguised as an attempt to increase penalties on drug traffickers with guns ... but it also included a provision to require federal background checks at gun shows," according to Brown. —Santorum "came to anti-gun... Full Article at Creators Syndicate

Even more importantly, the Romney team apparently failed to realize that Santorum would be a much more troublesome target than Gingrich and that getting rid of him after Newt would be much more difficult than it would have been before him. Other than... Full Article at American Thinker

But Romneys campagn said Monday it expects the field to tighten as it raises questions about Santorums record in Washington. Already, it is beginning to try to sow doubts by saying Santorum in the past supported Arlen Specter, a pro-choice Republican... Full Article at Detroit Free Press

Now this is stunning to me, because there is a considerable amount in Santorum's career that smacks of the very type of Republicanism that Rush openly lampoons -- an establishment 'look at me I can be a good moderate too' type of candidate or office... Full Article at American Thinker