Santorum is STILL lying!

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Rick Santorum graduated from High School, right? He knows how to tie his shoes, right? Then why isn't he smart enough to know to avoid the political beating he took in May?

For those who can't remember, here's what I wrote at the time. And a follow-up.

And a thumb-nail version of the story.

There was a primary and Rick Santorum went to vote in Penn Hills. A local Democrat named Ed Vecchio sought to challenge the Santorum's voter registration in that community by saying that the Santorum's don't live in the house they say they live in (according to the law he was within his rights here). According to the news reports he said something about how there wasn't even any furniture in the house.

At that point Rick went ballistic. He accused the Ed Vecchio of trespassing (a crime, by the way) and sought to connect the Casey Campaign to that "crime."

It was our first real look at how much of a loon Rick Santorum really is.

Now take a look at the current Penn Hills story. The Santorum campaign is still lying about the whole sordid event. Here's the basic point of the story:

A Penn Hills judge of elections received a warning on proper procedure after a resident challenged the right of Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and his wife, Karen, to vote in the community.

Mark Wolosik, county elections director, sent a letter to Lisa Moore in late June to question how she handled the challenge by Edward Vecchio, husband of Erin Vecchio, Penn Hills Democratic Committee chairwoman.

Wolosik determined Moore had not followed proper procedure when Vecchio challenged the Santorums' right to vote at the Forbes Elementary School polling site in the primary. Vecchio believes the Santorums do not live in their Penn Hills home and cannot fulfill the residency requirement for voter registration.

Moore should have required the Santorums to fill out a form to confirm their identity, residency and voter registration and obtain the signature of another registered voter in the district covered by the polling site. Then, the Santorums should have proceeded to vote, Wolosik wrote in his letter.

And yet here's what the Santorum Campaign says about it:

Erica Clayton Wright, a spokeswoman for Santorum's re-election campaign, said she is pleased with the county's decision.

"The recent decision by the Allegheny County Elections Division to dismiss the baseless voting claims against Rick and Karen Santorum demonstrates that there was never a general issue as to where they live and vote," she said.

"This once again proves that Casey operatives will stop at nothing, including the use of personal attacks, to dodge the issues of the campaign.

"It's a sad day in politics when one's opponent is incapable of running a campaign on the issues that concern Pennsylvania and instead focuses on trying to strip one's basic constitutional right to vote."

Huh? Did I miss something? The Penn Hills judge got it wrong on procedure and got a warning for it. How is that a dismissal?

But the biggest lie is found one paragraph below that:

"This once again proves that Casey operatives will stop at nothing, including the use of personal attacks..."

The Vecchios aren't Casey operatives - it's a lie to say that they are. Just thinking it won't make it true (just like the WMD or evolution or Terri Schiavo).

Rick Santorum - a man unable to tell fact from fantasy.