Santorum Flip Flops

Someone get Rick Santorum some summer flip flops. Oops, seems he has his own this season. Two different reports surfaced late this week exposing Tricky Ricky as a shady character. The first is an expose by the Philadelphia Inquirer that his website has quite different stands on the immigration bill depending whether you're reading in English or Spanish. His position on the issues is considerably more moderate for his latino readers. The hard line stance he posits in English isn't the one he wants his latino visitors to read.

Then the Casey campaign caught the Senator changing a key word in the audio version of his controversial tome It Takes a Family. Crooks and Liars has the audio clip. Will Bunch remarks at Attytood:

Now, why is Sen. Rick Santorum doing some creative editing as he adapts his 2005 book, "It Takes a Family," to an audio version? Today, the rival Bob Casey Jr. campaign caught an alteration on one of the book's most controversial passages, the one where the Pennsylvania GOP senator decries the "weird socialization" that he believes that children get in public schools.

That quote is likely one of the many reasons that Santorum is losing by as many as 23 points in the polls to Democrat Casey -- after all, most voters send their kids to public schools and either a) don't think the socialization of learning to interact with a broad and often diverse community is "weird" or b) can't afford to school their kids any other way. In Santorum's case, the whole subject reminds people that his kids were attending an online cyberschool from his now $962,000 McMansion in Leesburg, Va., while working class taxpayers in Penn Hills, Pa. were paying for it.

Soooo...in the audio version, Santorum simply changed the quote -- but not so much. As the Casey campaign is trumpeting today, the auto book now talks of "strange socialization." (You can listen to the audioclip here)

The extremist Senator is simply trying to moderate his loony tune remarks to try and appeal to as many voters as possible. I wonder how his die hard wingnut supporters will interpret this? Is their darling abandoning those trusted positions by trying to be more moderate? No one is ever going to believe Rick Santorum is a moderate. He's better off sticking with what he'ss aid because everyone is watching this race and he isn't going to get away with anything.

Run on your record Rick. Stop trying to run away from it because you'll never succeed. We've got you on tape.