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That’s the excuse, more or less, with which Rick Santorum is distancing
himself from a snippet of his 2005 book, “It Takes a Family,” in which
“radical feminists” are disparaged for giving women the idea that they
might find greater fulfillment outside the home. By using the passive
voice in the last stretch of that sentence, I’m cutting him a break. I
could have said “he disparaged” those feminists, because he’s the only
author listed on the book’s cover, and there’s no acknowledgment of
literary assistance from the hard-typing, home-schooling, house-tethered
missus. So even if he’s not a troglodyte, he’s something of a credit
hog.
You gotta love politics, and you gotta love Santorum. For much of this
campaign, he has been content to occupy the rightward extremes of social
issues, where he obviously felt he would best find traction. For most
of last week, he stood there proudly and loudly, championing the Roman
Catholic bishops in their archaic — and, let’s be clear, irresponsible —
antipathy to birth control.
He even came up with perhaps the most ridiculous hyperbole
in a political season thick with it. He said that “the path of
President Obama and his overt hostility to faith” would lead the country
to “the guillotine,” an apparent assertion that for Obama, hope and
change are the smokescreen, deficits and decapitation the real agenda.
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