Eugene Robinson: Pres. Santorum Would Have Us Preserve Bodily Fluids To Broaden Base Of Taxpayers
7:11 PM, Jan. 6, 2012
Here's a scary thought: President Santorum
Before there was the tea party to define the phrase "far-right fringe," there was Rick Santorum. He's a nice-guy zealot who should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office . . .
I mentioned that he's a nice guy. Unlike Romney, Santorum is perfectly at ease chit-chatting with strangers. He makes eye contact, engages the person he's talking to and gives the impression that he's speaking from the heart, not from a position paper. He seems genuine.
The problem is that his views are genuinely extreme and, in some instances, patently offensive . . .
For heterosexuals, Santorum wants to end federal funding for contraception. Yes, he opposes birth control. Contraception, he said in October, is "not OK" because it gives people "a license to do things in a sexual realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be." Thankfully, no one asked the obvious follow-up question.
Santorum also has linked the projected Social Security shortfall to rampant contraception — basically, birth control means fewer babies who would grow up to be workers whose payroll taxes would support the hordes of retirees who were born in simpler, purer times, when condoms were kept behind the counter and dispensed only at the whim of a stern and judgmental pharmacist.
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