This will doubtless mean more for DeWine's ego than for Santorum's success or failure. Such out-of-the-blue (red?) but politically convenient conversions mean very little or anything on the morning-after. (Is DeWine aiming for a veep spot on the Santorum national ticket? Or maybe U.S. attorney general?)
You might ask Donald Trump about endorsements. 'Twas an odd moment when The Donald stood with McMitt before the cameras and tweaked Romney's candidacy with a magisterial endorsement. Today, Trump is puzzling over the numbers and muttering "I just don't understand it." (Not that he ever did.)
All of which is a reminder that DeWine had belabored his campaign promise to end Obamacare on the first morning he entered the AG office. That was in 2010, a nightmarish year for Democrats all-around when DeWine fluked out a win over one of the most competent fellows to rise in Ohio, Richard Cordray. If that sounds like an exaggeration, recall that the same Mike DeWine was, as an incumbent Republican senator, thrashed in a landslide by current Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in 2006.
Need more? Is it nothing more than a coincidence that DeWine's about-face occurred just before Santorum's appearance at the Summit County Republican Lincoln Day dinner Saturday night? DeWine will be on the dais with him and Mike's buddy, Alex Arshinkoff, who used to do errands for him in Northern Ohio. The icing on the after-dinner sweets will be doubly sugary.
If the sky is clear, you might even see a halo over the city.
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Why should anybody be surprised. The two are soul-mates on the social issues, served together in the Senate in the cause of ending, for example, legal abortion. Not to be outdone by others in the anti-abortion movement, Santorum also apparently believes abortion in the case of rape, incest or the pregnant mother's possible death if the fetus is carried to term should be outlawed. It's not quite clear yet whether he also believes contraception should be criminalized. In the Senate, these two often decried the "intrusion" of the federal government in the regulation of businesses and financial institutions, as well as opposing environmental measures to protect public health. But when it comes to imposing one religious organization's doctrine on all or intruding into the most intimate decisions of women and families, they draw no boundaries.
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