Have you noticed that so many of the pieces written against Rick Santorum aren’t really about Santorum’s views. So often what you hear is disbelief and horror that Santorum actually believes in his Catholciism.
Richard Cohen’s latest column is a nasty piece. Because of Santorum’s Catholicism, Cohen says he’s in the wrong century. But that’s not even the really offensive stuff. Look how he starts his latest column:
Mullah Rick has spoken.
He wants religion returned to “the public square,” is opposed to contraception, premarital sex and abortion under any circumstances, wants children educated in what amounts to little red schoolhouses and called President Obama a “snob” for extolling college or some other kind of post-high school education. This is not a political platform. It’s a fatwa.
Oddly, Cohen doesn’t seem to have any problems with Obama’s voting to allow infanticide. No terroristic metaphors for infanticide in his Muslim metaphor handbook, I guess?
The interesting thing is that Santorum has made it clear that he would not impose his religious views on contraception and premarital sex. Obama, on the other hand, decrees that all must follow his belief in contraception and he uses taxpayer money to fund it.
Cohen calls Santorum’s approach “perilous and divisive” and warned that his dragging religion into the public sphere could lead to “beheadings and the like.”
Beheadings?!@!
This kind of personal attack is just shameless. This, of course, is the same Richard Cohen who reportedly had a long affair with Peter Jenning’s wife and reportedly admitted to “inappropriate behavior” with a younger female staffer by telling her to “stand up and turn around.” So in reading Mr. Cohen’s personal take on Santorum, just wonder about the source a little bit.
Cohen recently wrote a column saying “The GOP is brain dead.” That wouldn’t be so bad except I know what liberals want to do to brain dead people.
The funny thing is that I kinda’ expect liberals to be pretty irate that Santorum was compared to the fatwa delcaring mullahs. They’ll see it as an insult to the mullahs. Maybe Obama could apologize for that too.
