EVERYBODY HATES RICK SANTORUM-- HE'S PRACTICALLY THEIR LIEBERMAN (AT LEAST IN TERMS OF DISDAIN)

Screwball right-wing extremists in Pennsylvania are clamoring for blood-- Rick Santorum's. Santorum may be is the most radically right senator north of the Mason-Dixon Line but to the lunatic fringe, the heart and soul of Bush's 29% approval rating, Santorum isn't conservative enough! And they're not gonna take it anymore!

Today HUMAN EVENT'S Jason High, in a story called "Disillusion Republicans Leave Santorum In Perilous Position for November," writes that "Republicans are likely to look at Rick Santorum and his past betrayals, shrug their shoulders and walk away. There's a feeling of 'no compromise' right now that Santorum is going to have a hard time overcoming... Beyond Santorum, there are other lessons to be taken from Pennsylvania right now. The Republican Party has drifted from its base conservative values. Voters in Pennsylvania are holding elected leaders accountable, and national Republicans can expect a similar day of reckoning. The revolution in Pennsylvania was not over the pay raise, although that surely was the catalyst. The targeted incumbents also voted for tax increases, oversaw huge expansions of government, and had become entrenched, abusive, and self-serving. Sound familiar, national Republicans?"

And the loons are ready for war-- against... everyone. "Republicans need to stop regurgitating Ronald Reagan's famous 11th Commandment, 'Though shall not speak ill of another Republican,' and instead focus on the principles and beliefs that shaped Reagan's entire career. Most notably, Republicans should take this Reagan quote to heart, 'A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs, which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell numbers. ... And if there are those that cannot subscribe to these principals, then let them go their way.'

Go! Go! Go!

Of course in Pennsylvania they don't have all that much to lose when Casey defeats Santorum in November, as virtually 100% of political pundits expect. Casey is nearly as reactionary as Santorum on a wide range of social issues and his future votes in the Senate are more likely to anger and frustrate naive progressives than right-wing extremists. But if High and his pals think the far, far, far right of the Republican Party is so strong and riled up right now, why don't they go after Olympia Snowe, Mike DeWine, and Tom Kean who are practically Maoists compared to Santorum?