Rick appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" tonight and Chris brought up the negative comments in Rick's book about working moms.
In the following clip Rick tells Chris that the "cultural elite" do not respect stay-at-home moms. How is it that a sitting U.S. Senator doesn't believe/realize that the term "cultural elite" applies to him? Rick goes on to say that the reason he thinks stay-at-home moms are not affirmed is that the members of the "cultural elite" don't value the family and liberals believe in "selfish freedom."
Finally, Matthews asks Rick why he doesn't stay at home and Rick uses his answer to let us know that some of his best friends are stay-at-home dads. At the very end he almost says, "Not that there's anything wrong with that."
Have at it:
Scary is a perfect word for this joker.
I grew up in rural Mississippi and both my parents worked. They both worked so that we could have food on the table and a roof over our heads.
Having a wealthy elitist Republican like Mr. Santorum look down his nose at my parents because they had to work for a living is a slap in the face.
I can remember watching the 1992 Republican National Convention. Bush Sr and Dan Quayle both had a segment with their wives and beg the women of America to stay at home. My mother got increasingly angry during this segment. She kept saying things like, "Do they think I want to work?" and "I'd love to stay at home, but we're not wealthy."
These statements show just how out of touch Mr. Santorum is with working Americans. You should do everything possible to make sure everyone in America knows just how out of touch this republican elitist windbag is.
Anyway, my son and I watched this on Hardball and got into an argument. Son (who hates Santorum) said that Santorum is right -- that "society" does in fact take a dim view of stay-at-home moms and that women who work are viewed more favorably. I said "bolshoi" -- show me the survey data that support that statement. Without it, Santorum is whistling out of his ass. Does such survey/opinion data exist that describes attitudes toward working moms?
Over the years, a number of frazzled parents, as a matter of fact, over the years have tried to fob their kids off on me (for as much as a year at a time, after school, or as a permanent member of my carpool) on the grounds that I "don't have anything else to do." I try to be as giving as my circumstances allow, but my husband, bless him, growls like a bear when he suspects I'm being taken advantage of.
My husband and I are lucky lucky lucky to be able to have me at home and him at work. But we probably wouldn't "count" in the Santorums' eyes: We are Jews, Democrats, anti-WalMart, pro-contraception, and pro-choice. And when I had a miscarriage, we didn't bring our dead fetus home from the hospital to show around.