Earlier this morning on Fox and Friends, Rick Santorum rolled out his new social conservative advocacy group, Patriot Voices.
The former Pennsylvania senator, in an interview broadcast from Chicago where he will speak at CPAC Chicago late today, said he wants to give a voice to “people left behind by both parties” and promised to “hold campaigns accountable.”
Dressed in a suit and not his signature sweater vest, Santorum said the group would also help out Mitt Romney’s campaign and “make sure Mitt is the next president of the United States and that we get rid of the scourge that has been the bane of the economy and the country which has been Barack Obama and his administration.”
Watch the full announcement
here (apologies for the Faux News link).
Santorum claims his group will reach across party lines. But it's pretty telling that he used the unofficial news news network of the Republican Party to make this announcement.
According to Patriot Voices' Website, the new group stands for--among other things--defeating Obama, building healthy families and repealing "dependency programs" that infringe on freedom (including the health care overhaul). One telling sign, though--after the obligatory poll on how Obama is doing, there's a poll on whether coal's economic benefits are outweighed by the environmental risks. Freep away ...