Rick is having a banner day in the press, especially from editorial boards.
First, the Boston Globe tries to set the record straight with regard to Rick's ridiculous claims that Boston was somehow responsible for Catholic priests molesting children:
SENATOR RICK Santorum can't be serious when he says that localized liberalism has something to do with the sexual abuse scandal that convulsed the Archdiocese of Boston. But he repeated his three-year-old calumny this week, so a few facts are in order. More...
Meanwhile, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's
spokesperson fails miserably in trying to deflect the controversy by making what he must have thought was a joke:
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican who like Santorum has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008, called the remarks unfortunate, but did not ask for an apology, according to his spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.
``I think Sen. Santorum may be upset that the Red Sox swept the Phillies, and we think it's unfortunate,'' said Fehrnstrom, referring to the three-game sweep in late June. ``Senator Santorum is a fine person, and we're all entitled to make a mistake once in a while.''
Um, hey Eric don't quit your day job... On second thought, perhaps you should.
Both the
Harrisburg Patriot News and the
Allentown Morning Call feature editorials about the Penn Hill's School District's attempts to recoup the money that they paid for Rick's children to attend a cyber charter school while they lived in Virginia.
Here's some of what the Patriot News Editorial Board has to say:
Santorum insists that the school district's demand for compensation is purely political and was engineered by a school board member who is also the local Democratic Party chair.
But even if the law is on his side, what about the ethics of having local taxpayers shell out tens of thousands of dollars to educate children who clearly don't reside in the school district? What does this say about the character of a senator who holds himself up as an arbiter of cultural values in America?
...The Santorum family's residency is less a legal question -- the Constitution requires only that senators live in their home state at the time they're elected -- than a moral or ethical one. The relevant question is not whether it's legal to live in one place and demand that taxpayers in another pay for your children's nonpublic education, but whether it's right.
Maybe Rick will blame Boston for his residency troubles, too. Nothing would surprise us.
