Donald Lambro
WASHINGTON -- A presidential candidate's campaign rhetoric can tell us a lot about what he truly believes, but some of Rick Santorum's language has pushed that to the edge.
The former Pennsylvania senator has built much of his political career as the champion of the GOP's social and religious conservatives, a powerful part of the Republican Party's base. Last weekend he tested just how far he could go with his word choices in a speech in Ohio, a key state in the upcoming Super Tuesday primaries.
In that speech, Santorum criticized President Obama's liberal environmental agenda by saying that his views on that issue reflected "some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible," but one built upon a radical belief that that the Earth's needs should be placed above the needs of human beings.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2012/02/24/santorums_provocative_rhetoric_does_not_serve_him_well
WASHINGTON -- A presidential candidate's campaign rhetoric can tell us a lot about what he truly believes, but some of Rick Santorum's language has pushed that to the edge.
The former Pennsylvania senator has built much of his political career as the champion of the GOP's social and religious conservatives, a powerful part of the Republican Party's base. Last weekend he tested just how far he could go with his word choices in a speech in Ohio, a key state in the upcoming Super Tuesday primaries.
In that speech, Santorum criticized President Obama's liberal environmental agenda by saying that his views on that issue reflected "some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible," but one built upon a radical belief that that the Earth's needs should be placed above the needs of human beings.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2012/02/24/santorums_provocative_rhetoric_does_not_serve_him_well
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