Fun Facts from Sick Rantorum's Wiki page

[JaneQPublic]

-- Rick's dad was a Clinical Psychologist and his mother an Administrative Nurse -- not exactly the "blue collar" upbringing he suggests.

-- Although he grew up in WV and PA, he graduated from a high school in the Chicago, IL metropolitan area.

-- He once volunteered in a campaign for former PA Sen. John Heinz, first husband of John Kerry's wife.

-- He never served in the armed services (a point of interest, considering his call to engage in war with both Iran and Syria).

-- As a lawyer, he once represented the World Wrestling Federation, winning the argument that they should be exempt from steroid regulations.

-- As a senator, he introduced a bill to prohibit the National Weather Service from releasing free weather data to the public, after PA company Accuweather gave his campaign a $10,500 contribution.

-- Santorum was one of only two senators who voted against confirming the nomination of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense.

-- In supporting "enhanced interrogation" (torture), Santorum told John McCain, ex-POW and torture opponent, that McCain didn't understand how the torture process worked.

-- When he lost his senate seat to Bob Casey in 2006 by 18 percentage points, it was the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent senator since 1980 and the largest losing margin for an incumbent Republican senator ever.

-- Santorum earned $1.3 million in 2010 and the first half of 2011. The largest portion of his employment earnings — $332,000 — came from his work as a consultant for industry interest groups, including Consol Energy.

-- At one time, his wife was a neo-natal nurse, no doubting assisting with those neo-natal exams he now opposes.

-- He once wrote an article on the Roman Catholic child sex abuse scandal, in which he claimed it was no wonder that so much of these incidents occurred in Boston, since it is "a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America."

-- In 2002, he traveled to Rome to speak at a celebration for the founder of Opus Dei. He and his wife were named Knight and Dame of Magistral Grace of the Knights of Malta in a ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on November 12, 2004.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum

[JohnnyRingo]

1. I remember the Accuweather bill

I didn't know Santorum wrote it. That says a lot about how he'd govern from the White House.

Imagine if government services like the NWS was banned from disclosing what they knew to the public unless News corporations wanted to pay for it.

[HopeHoops]

2. WWF exists BECAUSE of steroids - and Andy Kaufman created it.

[LeftishBrit]

3. 'Sick Rantorum'? What a great name for him!

Interesting that his parents were a clinical psychologist and a nurse, because their son drives people nuts and makes them sick!