I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.
On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.
I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.