Inquirer editorial on Santorum: "bark but no bite"

It's a tight editorial that raises some good points. An exerpt:

Bob Casey Jr., his Democratic opponent in next year's Senate race in Pennsylvania... (gently) chided the Republican incumbent for not using his leadership position in the Senate to ask "tough questions" of the Bush administration about the conflict in Iraq.

Not true! Santorum replied.

He had been generally supportive of the Bush policy in Iraq, he said, but had expressed concerns about aspects of it "publicly and privately."

Trouble was, no one could find those statements. Not the Casey campaign. Not the reporters who went looking. Not even Santorum's staff after days of LexisNexis diving.

Santorum's response to this?

"I do a lot of interviews on TV, on radio, with print reporters who don't happen to write everything I say. The fact that it hasn't turned up in print doesn't mean I haven't said it."

Can you hear me now?

Which opens up these possibilities:

One. Maybe he was out of cell phone range when he said it and no one could pick it up.

Two. Maybe he thought he said it, but only dreamed it. (That's happened to me. Has it happened to you?)

Three. Maybe he said it, but reporters who heard it thought: a Senate GOP leader criticizing the administration on Iraq? That's not news.

Four. Maybe he never made any critical statements but didn't want to admit it because he would look like an administration lapdog. Weef! Weef!

You pick one.