And it Starts -- Santorum Campaign Scores Nixonian Trifecta with False Release

Vince Galko, Santorum's 32-ish campaign manager, issued an immature email appeal to Santorum supporter's today which falsely accused Bobby Casey of sending someone around Santorum's home to look in the windows at his wife and 27 children (okay, he only has six kids), which were supposedly terrified.

According to KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Ed Vecchio, the head of the Penn Hills Democratic Party said that the two-bedroom house owned by Santorum in Penn Hills, which Santorum claims as his residence, is vacant:

“He doesn't live here,” said Ed Vecchio of Penn Hills. “The house he's registered to vote out of, is vacant -- no curtains, furniture, nothing in there. It's abandoned for over a month. So, I feel it's my right to contest his vote.”

On election day, Vecchio had challenged Santorum's residency, but Santorum was permitted to vote without having to sign a residency affidavit. Vecchio apparently intends to pursue the matter. It was Vecchio's wife, a Penn Hills School Board member and Democratic committee woman, who blew the whistle on Santorum ripping off Penn Hills taxpayers in excess of $100,000 which the District paid to educate Santorum's children in Virginia, where they live.

After Ed Vecchio -- who lives near the Santorum property in Penn Hills -- made his comments about the home being empty ("no curtains, furniture, nothing in there"). Mrs. Santorum, who was at home in Virgina with their children, called the D.C. Police (NOT the Virginia, Pennsylvania State, or Penn Hills police, mind you), to say that someone had to have trespassed on the property to obtain that information.

KDKA says that the police say they have nothing to support Mrs. Senator's claim:

"Right now, Penn Hills Police don't know who, if anybody, trespassed on Santorum's property. No one has been charged."

But, the Santorum spin machine managed to turn it into a scary affair for the poor little Santorum tribe. From the way the story was fabricated by Santorum's campaign manager, it sounded like Casey ordered his staff to go peering into Santorum's home, scaring the crap out of the little Santorums and acting so badly that the police needed to immediately come running to protect their lives and property.

Here's what Santorum's snivelling little mouthpiece said:

Casey's crew violated the Santorum family's home in search of political ammunition, instilling fear in Rick Santorum's wife, Karen, their six children, his in-laws and their neighbors to the point where the police had to be called in to protect the home.. . . . [S]neaking around the Santorum home is an all-time new low! It's not only an assault on the Santorum family, but also on the democratic process and every Pennsylvanian and American.

THIS is the best that Santorum can come up with as their first attack against Casey?

Obviously, Santorum is running scared to put out this kind of garbage. It is a tactic dishonest, immature, and reeking of poor judgment all at once -- a Nixonian trifecta. And the freeking campaign is only a couple of days old.