He Doesn't Live Here Any More

An editorial in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tries to get in the last word on the Tale of the Mysterious Abode.

In Nobody home -- Santorum tries to cover his tracks on residency, the paper states:

Before every election, the Post-Gazette routinely sends letters to the candidates seeking material for the Voters Guide. Back in March, as part of that process for the primary, the newspaper sent a letter to Rick Santorum at his home address, at least the one that he claims. Back from Penn Hills came the letter with a sticker from the U.S. Postal Service checked as "Not Deliverable As Addressed -- Unable To Forward."

That is all you need to know about the nasty dispute between the Republican Sen. Santorum and his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr., in the November election. The whole thing is rooted in one inconvenient fact for Sen. Santorum: He doesn't live here anymore.

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Mr. Casey described Sen. Santorum's claims as "weird" and "bizarre." Actually, they are beyond weird and raise serious questions about the senator's ethics that go beyond the residency question. In a letter to Mr. Casey, he speaks of his "outrage" regarding the actions of the Casey campaign "which have put our six young children at a serious safety risk."

Though that suggestion is far-fetched to the point of absurdity, it would be a potential source of fear only if the senator actually lived in Penn Hills, but -- let us repeat one last time -- the Santorum family is at no risk because he doesn't live here anymore and the family is in Virginia most of the time. So what we have is the senator making untrue and outrageous comments while seeking to hide behind his wife and kids in order to get around an inconvenient fact.

We have a feeling that those who do live here may have something to say about this cowardly tactic at the November polls.

One point I haven't seen anyone make is that if the Santorums did truly reside in this home, wouldn't he just have invited the media inside to see his lovely, lived-in home, to prove that those nasty Democrats are terrible people for making this story up? Haven't seen that film at 11:00 and won't -- because he doesn't live here any more. In fact, I don't believe Santorum ever lived in this house -- this small, 3 bedroom home, with his 6 kids.

An earlier post on this story (along with a picture of the Virginia home) can be found at A House is not a Home.

UPDATE: You can hear Santimonious Santorum Speak, or rant, on a Pittsburgh radio program at Eschaton. I was actually taken aback when I realized it was him speaking. He sounded a bit like one of those nuts that call talk radio. I think he's losing it over this issue. Listen for yourself.

(Picture & story via Attytood and Eschaton)

Tags: PA politics, Santorum