The Do Over Derby
To the dog ate my homework, we can now add my wife wrote the chapter.
Thats 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, Im cutting him a break. I could have said he disparaged those feminists, because hes the only author listed on the books cover, and theres no acknowledgment of literary assistance from the hard-typing, home-schooling, house-tethered missus. So even if hes not a troglodyte, hes 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, lets 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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/opinion/bruni-the-do-over-derby.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212