There are stirrings again for a constitutional convention to be convened, but it would not necessarily be an easy task.

'When 9/11 came along, everybody bonded together. We were all one team. We were trying to figure it out,' Santorum told The Western Journal.

'I just don't think it does anything to the memory of John McCain to use him as a cudgel...'

It's different when an issue hits home.