Thank You
A message from Senator Santorum.
- First, let me thank you for your support and your faith throughout this campaign and beyond.
I am so blessed to be surrounded by not only my loving family but so many wonderful supporters committed to the future of our state and our nation.
Although the results were not what we wanted, we couldn’t be prouder of our campaign and the job we’ve done for you and your families. You should be proud too for the hours you spent making calls, knocking on doors, talking to family, friends and neighbors and all the other time you spent thinking about and working on our re-election.
We’re humbled by your devotion and your faith.
My wife Karen and I thank God for the opportunity to have served our nation and the greatest state in the nation. We’ve used that gift to try and do good for Pennsylvania, our nation and our world.
We stood up for the family, for the most vulnerable from the beginning of life to the end of life, and we didn’t forget those in between. We worked for those who are disadvantaged in this country and those who are suffering around the world.
We worked for the greater prosperity of you and your family.
And most important, on the principle that matters more than any other, we didn’t back down from confronting the threat that confronts us from overseas.
People have asked me why I talked about unpopular things like the war … the threat from Islamic fascists, from Iran, from North Korea, from Venezuela … in this campaign. They asked, why didn’t you just talk about the projects you delivered or the things that you accomplished?
My answer is that those are the things in the past, and what leaders are supposed to do is to talk about things that our country confronts in the future.
And I did, and I’m very proud of that. I do not rescind a word because those words are words that this country was not receptive to hear tonight. But, they are going to continue to hear those words from me and I assure you from many others as that threat become my clear, and hopefully our country is called to action to stop that threat before it becomes too serious of a threat to the future of our country.
My time as your U.S. Senator is coming to a close, but I will continue to work for you, and for all of the wonderful people we have met and worked for over the years.
I can’t thank you enough.
God Bless.
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It’s a bummer that Rick lost, but that’s how elections go.
We’ll be around.
Yes, it is sad. But he will be back (as, I imagine, you). You did fine work Alex.
Comment by Charlie on the PA Turnpike — November 17, 2006 @ 3:30 pm
We fought the good fight, knowing that we were probably going to lose all along. But to paraphrase the old saying - if good men do nothing, then evil has already won.
I have also continued to put new posts up on here since the election to show everybody that we aren’t just going to go sulk and hide since we lost. The issues are too important for that. I for one will never give up on supporting politicians who are on the right side of these issues, and I will not stop talking about these issues in whatever ways I can. We need to defeat the Islamic fascists. We need to take back the courts from activist judges. We need to protect our borders. We need to control government spending and taxes. We need to protect the family from attack. We must do all of these things for the sake of America and for civilization itself.
Comment by John Lewandowski — November 17, 2006 @ 5:15 pm