This morning, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) put some serious daylight between himself and Majority Leader Tom DeLay. From ABC’s This Week:

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Think Progress: STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you think that this is just attacks on him [Tom DeLay] or attacks on the conservative movement, or are there serious issues here that he has to address?

SANTORUM: …If those things were not out there, obviously they wouldn’t be raising them. And so there are issues that he has to deal with personally…I think he has to come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it and let the people then judge for themselves.