president of the united states, it is about the person we send, it s about who they are, it s about their record. i ve known rick santorum for years. when i base the president if my books people say is rick santorum in there? yeah, there is a lot of him. i envision sending best to washington to do the nation s most dangerous and most important business. as i turn it over to to the fantastic sam club, it s fantastic for me, i never thought i would introduce sam club as i would senator santorum, what s the most important reason you ve endorses santorum and thrown in behind rick? i tell people, the two most important reasons i have are my kids, it s important to me i m going john boehner it s how much i love my country. it s important to me that i leave a country stronger with more freedom to them than was left to me.
this is a wonderful thing about being here today. i was with the senator all day yesterday. and it was just one of the greatest things i ve ever done if my life. the plan who was crying matt schultz, the iowa secretary of state, introducing this gentleman, who will introduce rick santorum. we will come back for rick santorum. we want to take a quick break. [ female announcer ] the healing power of touch can be even more powerful, with precise pain relieving heat patch. it blocks pain signals for deep relief precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol.
talked about them because he hasn t been in the limelight where you get the added scrutiny. we haven t talked about his 2006 senate race. that was where he lost by something like 18%, his opponents call it a landslide. this is a republican senator in a battle ground state, pennsylvania incumbent, running for re-election just gets trounced by his democratic opponent there which raises the question, if a republican senator can t win his own state, pennsylvania, which is a very important state, why would republicans trust him with the nomination because he can t even bring pennsylvania along? i asks him about that and he makes a case that, number one, it was a very bad year for republicans in 2006, which it was, and the other thing, i think, is perhaps the more important thing to a lot of the conservative voters here, he says, look, people wanted me to