Former Sen. Rick Santorum 1 Step Closer To Running For President

April 14, 2011 9:26 PM

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum says he’s now testing the waters to run for president.

“We’re going to determine whether the resources are there to make this a real legitimate campaign going forward,” he said.

Having lost by a big margin to U.S. Sen. Bob Casey in 2006, Santorum knows that people in this state may be skeptical.

“I don’t think most people in Pennsylvania have really considered Rick Santorum and the office of presidency that seriously,” Santorum said.

But that could be changing.

“I think his brand of conservative politics may be back in fashion,” Keith Schmidt, Santorum’s former top aide, said.

One poll even has Santorum almost even with President Obama in Pennsylvania.

“We have an obligation and we’re certainly going to work very hard to reintroduce myself and the family to Pennsylvania and the reasons we want to pursue this,” Santorum said.

One big issue locally was his home in Penn Hills. He and his family live in a bigger house in Virginia. That’s less an issue today.

“In the cornfields of Iowa, or in the small towns of New Hampshire, or in the seaside towns of South Carolina, they don’t care about Penn Hills,” Schmidt said. “We have to care about it here — people are still talking about it, quite frankly, but that’s not an issue for him when he runs for President of the United States.”

For someone who is not yet an official candidate, Santorum has spent a lot of time in those three must win early states. He’s already been to New Hampshire and South Carolina 14 times and to Iowa 11 times, all of which he believes will make him a player in next year’s presidential race.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum 1 Step Closer To Running For President

Ryan

Don’t run no one likes you
moe

This is a joke,right?
John

He is a gay basher! You’re right no one likes him!

HA HA

LOL , JOHN SECRETLY LIKES HIM.

Brandenburg

True. Nice to see someone on here with some political knowledge.

Mon River Towing

Bob Casey is an idiot. (He will probably write a strong worded letter to my mom for saying so) He is Pennsylvania’s invisible man. I’ve voted for Santorum and I’ve voted for Casey. Given the chance again head to head I guess I’d have to pick blowing my brains out in front of Daryl Metcalfe.

Brandenburg

http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/
Nick Turner

His running must be an April Fools joke!
Vosomatic

I think he should run…run far far away!
Sandy Klingensmith

Right and mayor Luke will be his sidekick….i mean running mate!
Joe

Sorry no joke, his running that is. Him, yes that’s a joke. Thought we got rid of him last election. Just what we need another self rightess, bigot. Already have enough of them in Washington.

BIGOTS MUST GO

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN I NEVER SEEN A BIGGER BIGOT THAN OBAMA.
2012 .

Alyssa

DERP!!1
lek

NO
Ryan

Only running he should do is in parkway east traffic!

Thomas J Duttine

Going West!

Barbara Murawski

I would love to see Rick Santorum run for President and WIN! I think he’d make a great President and I sure will vote for him if he does.

Ryan

LMAO
Brainless

Weren’t you people credited with inventing screen doors for submarines ???

Barbara Murawski

Hope I can get a RICK SANTORUM for President sign put in my front yard.

Santor-rum

I’ll put a sign in your yard, lady.

HAW HAW

CORBET FOR PRESIDENT

lui

politically speaking, he is a NO vote, period.
dan

Rick santorum, is the last thing this country needs. He comes bush all over again. It’s really time to get the unions motivated!!!!

Zoeyzotron

Actually oBama is the last thing we needed. However he will be gone in less htan two years, thank god!

GO TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dikdikkytron

You’re a moron
Zoeyzotron

oBama is a community organizer… that was his resume, and you voted for him to run the most powerful nation in the world. What a disaster.

Who is the moron?

2059

Are the republicans that hardup?
Barry Hussein O’Brien

If Obama were to lose to somebody I hope it would be Santorum. It’d be worth it to see the horror on the faces of all the Faux news whiners, birthers, and tea bags when they get exactly what they think they deserve and realize and regret they never gave the great Barack a chance. That said Rick Santorum couldnt beat Sasha Obama in 2012.
Paul Moschetta

His aide says that Penn Hills is no longer an issue, however, if he runs, all of that garbage will be brought out to the forefront again, and those that aren’t aware that he ripped off the PHSD, will know what a loser he really is! I hope he DOES run, so he can become the posterboy of embarrassment to the Republican party
doesn’t like santorum

he can not keep his pa senate seat and he is RUNNING for President…..OMG what is this world coming too….he is a liar……
Sanitarium

Rick and Karen Santorum would not let the morgue take the corpse of their newborn; they slept that night in the hospital with their lifeless baby between them.

The next day, they took him home. ”Your siblings could not have been more excited about you!” Karen writes in her book, which takes the form of letters to Gabriel.

Also, this is the same guy who traveled 1300 miles to Florida to tell them that Florida laws are illegal. (re: Terry Schiavo)

Ricky is stuck on being part of the religious right. What he fails to realize, is the Evangelicals were replaced with the Tea Baggerz.

Ryan (not the liberal Ryan in the earlier comments)

I don’t think it’s right to question their actions when their newborn died. That is a tramatic event that very few people would understand how to react to. If you dont like the guy fine, but I think it is cold-hearted to question his actions there.

Soupy Doopy

Whoa !!….Morallity Police !!……They should have boiled water & made soup !…..Yummy !!!

eazytime

Lets not forget that he ripped the school district where he had a house not occupied by him. Trying to become a theif and a liar on a larger scale. If he runs all the dirt will come out about this low life.
Eazytime

Hey Brandenberg.
That is so true, got a chuckle out of that.
jimb

Another republican lunitic.
FedUp

Oh, no . . . say it ain’t so. Go away. Haven’t forgotten about your residency scandal. You politicians are all alike — all greedy, all liars, all thieves. Go back to Viriginia or Penn Hills or wherever the heck you claim your “residence” to be.