I talked to Rick Santorum briefly tonight. He told me that he “can’t in good conscience give details about what happened in senator-only meetings.” But in response to Ramesh’s question on abortion-related legislation, the former Pennsylvania senator offers to NRO: “the one that comes quickly to mind was a ban on cloning. While the House passed a cloning ban at least on one occasion, we never voted on the issue despite pleas from social conservatives as to its importance. Many senators including Senator McCain wanted to avoid casting votes.”

Senator Santorum stands by what he’s said about his former colleague. He went on Hewitt, Levin, and Ingraham, among others to warn conservatives about his experience working as a member of the Republican leadership with Senator McCain — an experience that he largely found frustrating, especially (but not only) on social-conservative issues. But I don’t think he’s interested in waging personal jihad against McCain. (He’s busy spending his days focusing on actual jihad.) And so I don’t think you’ll see him issuing any laundry lists of specifics, in large part for the reason cited above.