From POLITICO:
…[Rick Santorum] was popular with most of his GOP colleagues, emerging as the No. 3 Senate Republican, and he briefly considered a run for Senate GOP leader. He played a key role in the so-called “K Street Project,” an effort by top Republicans on Capitol Hill to fill the ranks of powerful lobbying shops with Republican supporters. He pushed for hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for Pennsylvania projects and companies, then used those relationships to help his post-Senate career.
And he profited mightily from his Senate ties after he left the chamber in 2007, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars by cashing in on his insider relationships, including serving on a hospital management board that was accused of Medicaid fraud.
In 2004, Santorum committed a major sin against the conservative movement: He cut a TV ad calling for the reelection of moderate Republican Arlen Specter against conservative favorite Pat Toomey in the Pennsylvania GOP primary, telling voters that Specter “is with us on the votes that matter.” Five years later, Specter became a Democrat and Toomey won his seat in November 2010…
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