Fighting to the bitter end without compromising a single stand, Senator Rick Santorum wages the toughest battle of his political career. Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator is there:

The drama is interrupted as Santorum's five-year old son Patrick squiggles and distracts the audience as well as his father. "Including Pat," Santorum says, the audience breaking out into laughter, the tension in the room released as the little boy grins. "This race," Pat's father resumes, "this race will make a difference to the future of our country....This election cycle, John Ashcroft said, will be one that history will look back on and say we either made the right call, did the right thing, stood up and confronted evil before it became too late. Or...or we made a mistake that could cost our country dearly... This decision is in the hands of a handful of people...the security of our country...the lives of your children and grandchildren, their safety and security, not just your children and grandchildren but your lives are on the line...So I'm asking you to work as if your lives depended on it...because they very well may."

There is a return to humor. "The Democrats are energized. I don't know why anyone would be energized for Bob Casey. Bob Casey isn't energized for Bob Casey!" Howls of laughter, followed by applause at what has become a standard Santorum charge: his opponent's sheer laziness, whether it comes to his candidacy, doing his intellectual homework or his job performance as State Treasurer. Even as Santorum speaks his campaign has opened a startling line of attack in this area: Casey, it seems, was so inattentive to the management of funds in the State Treasury he has wound up investing pension fund money in companies tied to states sponsoring terrorism. On television screens across the state an indignant veteran of the Iraq War takes note.

When Santorum is done the audience cheers, surrounding him, standing in line to shake his hand, to tell him they agree.

Read the whole article at the link above. That Pennsylvanians would even consider replacing a man like Santorum with a lazy, good-for-nothing empty suit like Bob Casey, Jr. simply boggles the mind.