Seems as if some of the floundering Republican party is starting to come to their senses for, if nothing else, to try to stay afloat.

I don't think that Santorum flipping is good news at all.

If he manages to deceive the PA electorate and keeps his seat, he'll continue to promote the Christian right's most destructive policies--and he'll just flip right back after the election...

Does this mean I have to start respecting George Will?

Santorum is from Pennsylvania. He read the writing on the wall when he saw what happened to the Dover, Pa. school board. I wonder what Pat Robertson has to say about this.

Rick is well aware the prospects of him having to get a real job after next November look better and better.

He’s quaking in his boots at that reality. He’ll do anything to hang on to his current gig.

Scientist is wrong and Linda is right. The extreme right, that has gained much power of late, is going over the line. The voters, however briefly I fear, came to their senses.

But the power groups in the party will flip back after they (if they) successfully hold on to power, and they will try to achieve their agenda under different means. We can only hope that the voters retain their new found senses until the 2006 elections, and after.

With the level of rot that has set into the Republican party and the decay of real conservative values, it will take a long time for it to come to its senses.

It's not that I agree with all of the traditional conservative agenda, but it at least focused on public policy, domestically and internationally, rather than injecting religion into the mix which is especially difficult and divisive in a diverse societies.

these things are clues.

Pat Robertson has done an important thing by asserting that the Citizens of Dover had rejected God from their city last Tuesday: he doesn't pretend, it's not about the talking points, Intelligent Design is about teaching that God created the heaven and the earth, and that's that. He could be clearer, but not much.

Thanks, Pat!

I don't trust Santorum and all the other ID flip-floppers at all. This just shows that they never believed in that bible thumping baloney in the first place. But they thought it was politically expedient for them - as with creationism, as with abortion, as with Terri Schiavo.

And now they fear they might pay a price for it. I agree with Linda: the voters must not believe them. Soon there'll be another flip-flopping wave: the war. John Edwards was first, every Democrat seeking for office in 2006 and 2008 will follow - and I bet you we'll gonna see a healthy load of Republican turn-coats as well.

The tide is turning - but they shall drown in it.

What can you say about Rick Santorum? Typical squirmy little equivocating piggy.

These religious conservative politicians don't give two SHITS about God or Christ.

You'll see that's true very shortly.

“What the conservatives who control the Kansas board of education changed in the definition of Science was they REMOVED the following words: ‘Science is a search for NATURAL explanations of observable phenomenon’. That means they are opening the door to teaching SUPER NATURAL!”

um... i never thought i'd say this....but George Will actually articulated an intelligent position. Incredible!

George Will didn't want to look like a COMPLETE idiot so he denounced ID, which is easy for anyone who made it pass 6th grade to do. Don't give him a free pass his views on social issues are so skewed to the right he's holdin the repubs' jocks!

This just in: Pat Robertson says Rick Santorum shouldn't look to God when he loses his next election, he has voted God out of his life and therefore will lose every election he runs in...Alright..way to go God!!