Rick Santorum's first book hit bookstores this weekend. It's called "It Takes A Family." (Shall we give Rick a gold star for that very clever title?)
If you're the type who needs to read a review or two before you drop $25 on a hardcover, then you simply must check out the customer reviews on Amazon -- where the book is currently rated with a whopping 5 stars.
When we finally get to the end of page 430, we'll compose a review, too. In the meantime, if you want some quick excerpts, you should check out Capitol Buzz.
"Thanks Mr. Santorum! Thank you so much! After reading "It Takes a Family" I made my wife quit her job. We're now working on having our third child. Hopefully things will get better though, because we can't afford to eat too much these days. A meal usually consists of what we call "ketchup sandwiches". But, I must say I'm truly enlightened and this outweighs the hunger in my stomach and the fear of not being able to pay the mortgage. Mr. Santorum, you're a true American hero."
He is none the less way wrong. Who is he to determine the amount of time I or my wife should spend with our kids? How doe he know how we should raise our kids?
The real problem with Santorum is that he took a little idea that he thought was a universal axiom (that staying home longer with kids is always good) and he expounded it into a political philosophy whwere he can morally judge people and denounce their behavior based on his measurement of how much time they spend with their kids.
wait ...
He's running for Senate? I guess it's too late to let him know about the 19th Amendment ... that really throws a crimp in his "Women Will Like What We Tell Them To Like" platform.
I just mailed this to about 50 of my favorite gay friends. Most live in NY, very close to the PA line. We are going to have one HELL of a party driving down there every weekend working to make sure "man on dog santorum" gets to spend lots of time with his wife and children, we want him unemployed! My friends and I are just counting the days till this pig is out of politics.
DEFEAT SANTORUM!
That's been the tenet of the Republican
party since the grand days of Phyllis Schlafly, mother of six who speechified her way across America telling gullible married mothers to stay home where they belong. She was asked at the 1996 GOP convention "How is it you believe poor mothers should go to work when you say
other mothers should stay home with their children?" Her answer? "Not on my dime." Yep, nothing says "family values" like the Religious Right.
--Pg 138, It Takes a Family, by Republican Senate Leader Rick Santorum (PA).