Rick Santorum has no business experience, no management experience, no investment experience, no experience as a venture capitalist, and no real understanding how the market, let alone the free market works. Presidential Candidates’ Net Worth Total net worth: $1 million to $3 million
One of the poorest 2012 candidates, Rick Santorum is still a millionaire. From relatively modest means, Santorum served as a congressman and senator, but has since found more lucrative compensation in the private sector. All of Rick Santorum’s wealth comes from government or from those who do business with government. Since leaving Congress Santorum has worked for at least seven different employers simultaneously, with several paying him a six-figure fee
In his circuitous path to the top of the primary polls, Santorum has presented himself as the (view video pure conservative alternative) to Romney. But an extensive review of newspaper archives and interviews with officials involved in his successful 1990 congressional race against Rep. Doug Walgren (D-Pa.) suggests that Santorum was cut from a similar GOP cloth as his current adversary.
Take, for instance, a November 3, 1990, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, in which Santorum distanced himself from Ronald Reagan.
Santorum insisted that he was the one who is more in touch. 'From child care to taxes, we're right for this district. This district has had enough of government sticking its nose constantly in our business,' he said, insisting nonetheless that he is not a Reagan Republican.
Santorum reportedly made a similar statement on a separate occasion. According to an October 28, 1990 piece in the Pittsburgh Press, the afternoon newspaper that eventually became part of thePost-Gazette, he described himself as a "progressive conservative" in his campaign manual.
