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Mr. Santorum has, for years, claimed based on unreliable figures that almost all late-term abortions are terminating healthy, normal pregnancies. Now, he does a complete 180 in order to perform the mental gymnastics linking the healthcare law's requirement of free coverage of prenatal testing to culling the disabled.
Mr. Santorum's dishonesty is not what concerns me the most here. What concerns me the most is that this man, who by some cosmic joke is the front-runner for the Republican nomination, is making it such that it would be hard for a Democrat to give him the respect of a handshake. How can this man expect to meet any cooperation from Democrats in Congress if he were to come into office? How can this man expect to shake President Obama's hand and engage him as a reasoned political interlocutor when debate season comes around?
Most of all, when this is how he energises his supporters, how can he expect them take defeat (assuming God grants us that good fortune) as orderly, civilised, and reasonable participants in the political process?
Senators McCain and Obama fought a rough race for President. But in the face of a substantial contingent of his party which was xenophobic, reactionary, and downright batty (think that Grandma who said to McCain that Obama was an Arab, which we all know is a synonym for Muslim), Mr. McCain ensured that his campaign would not besmirch our nation's democratic process by putting itself on a pedestal of anger and venom from which it could not step down.
Mr. Santorum has managed to put itself on such a pedestal many stories high, and it's not even general election season yet.
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