Santorum featured in Newsweek (Obama also featured)

[RamboLiberal]

We have to send Sanctimoneous down in flames in '06 for the good of the country!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6733264/site/newsweek/

Mister Right
Rick Santorum: The No. 3 man in the Senate leadership is hard at work spreading the GOP gospel. Will his crusades take him all the way to the White House?

For most denizens of Washington, politics is a living, perhaps a way of life. For Rick Santorum, it is a bruising crusade. As a student in the dissolute 1970s, he smoked his share of pot at Penn State and was, by his own account, somewhat casual about his Roman Catholic faith. Now, still boyish at 46, he is a devout and devoted family man—father to six home-schooled children—and a senator determined to champion the church's traditional moral principles in the public square. In the reception area of his office, there's a predictably appropriate portrait of Pennsylvania's Ben Franklin, bibulous deist. But the one on the wall in the sanctum of Santorum is of Thomas More, sainted for losing his life in defense of Rome's control of English Christendom. "That picture's up there for a reason," Santorum said in an interview. "There was a guy who was willing to stand up for things that were not particularly popular, and he paid the price for it."

Thus far, however, Santorum's story is the opposite of More's: professions of belief have been his ticket to the top. He's become one of the shrewdest players in the front ranks of the faith-based Republican Party George W. Bush and Karl Rove have erected. As the third-ranking Republican in a majority soon to expand to 55 members, Santorum is close to the White House, operates one of the largest personal campaign funds and is a point man on hot-button issues ranging from gay marriage to Social Security. Used to being the youngest or the first, Santorum won a seat in the U.S. House at 32 (with hundreds of anti-abortion activists serving as his shock troops) and one in the Senate at 36. His combatively devout approach is one Republicans are hoping will expand their control in the decade ahead by winning over traditional Catholics in Great Lakes states and Hispanic voters everywhere. It's an approach Santorum has told friends he thinks can propel him to the presidency someday.

[efhmc]

1. Scary, facist freak.

[StClone]

2. Oh, Santorum is a person too!?

I thought it was this http://www.thestranger.com/2003-07-03/savage.html

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

3. You mean the Virginia Senator who STOLE tax$$ from PA??? nt

[hopein08]

4. "Smoked his share of pot"!!!!!!!!!!!

That's something you don't hear every run of the mill compassionate conservative admit to!

Democrats need to dig deep into his background!

[IronLionZion]

5. the man is a fraud

I'm ashamed to share the same religion as that piece of shit. Catholics are supposed to care about the poor, sick, and elderly but he is against them. He uses public funds for himself and sends his kids to school in Virginia. He has a rather nice expensive house in Herndon VA, and a cheap empty one in Penn Hills, PA. And he claims to be pro-life...until the child is born then he screws them out of education, health care, and employment. He's a strong supporter of the death penalty, Iraq war, and imprisoning gays for sodomy.

He should be easy to defeat, if only the Dems weren't a bunch of wankers. We need to field and support a kick-ass candidate in 2006.

http://www.santorumforvirginia.com/
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Rick_Santorum.htm

[IrishDemocrat]

7. Back east your fellow Eagles fan..

Shares your same concerns. I can't beleive the Archdioscese of Philadelphia backs the ever present sack of shit we call "Santoomey." This is not the Catholic church i was taught to beleive in. We need to send our hierarchy a message here. I used to go to Mass with due diligence every week, but recently I find myself loathing them. Every few months I have to hear about how we should give money to some "pro-life" group which bascially is a 527 for the GOP. Just look at followthemoney.org and look under PACs. This is getting ridiculous. Since the 1980s, it seems like the big money hijacked the Catholic church and taylored it for the GOP.

[Joy Anne]

6. it's time

for letters to the editor at Newsweek, folks.