Paul Zummo writes a great piece at American Catholic about Rick Santorum and his puzzlement as to why Catholic conservatives aren’t supporting Senator Santorum. Why?

The guy’s a conservative. He’s Catholic. Really Catholic.

I think at some level this kind of stuff becomes self fulfilling. With Rick scoring so low in the polls, when people are asked who they want for President they kinda’ think saying Santorum is tossing their choice away so they pick from between the current batch of big names like Romney, Gingrich, and Cain (still?).

Paul Zummo lists a number of other valid reasons including Santorum’s endorsement of Specter over Toomey. I can tell you I lived in Pennsylvania and I spoke to many pro-lifers who felt betrayed by Santorum over his endorsement and they thought they couldn’t do worse on that issue with Bob Casey, the son of a famous pro-life Democrat. (How’d that work out for ya’?)

There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to go for Rick because I think he’s easily demonized. It was the same reason I was skittish about Sarah Palin. The media has done so much damage to Santorum and Palin that trying to get them elected would be difficult.

But I think for the time being when asked by anyone and everyone I’ll say I’m throwing my weight behind Rick Santorum. Honestly, if I had my druthers of which one to pick, I’d pick Rick. I trust him the most. It ain’t even close actually. Well, wait I also trust Ron Paul to never lie to me but I just don’t like what he says some of the time.

But check out Zummo’s piece. It’s definitely worth a read. I think he’s right on.