Santorum's Character

 

I was just reading an analysis of the Iowa caucuses and this line caught my eye:

 

Santorum does best among those voters prioritizing abortion as an issue and “strong moral character” as a candidate attribute.

 

Strong moral character?  I think these people have a VERY different definition of strong moral character than I do.

Here are some Santorum positions that I view as NOT evincing strong moral character:

-          Rick Santorum wants states to be allowed to ban contraception. 

-          Rick Santorum does not believe that mutually consenting adults have the right to privacy when it comes to their sexual conduct.

-          Rick Santorum wants to ban all abortions, even in the case of incest and rape, and supports jailing doctors who perform them.

-          Rick Santorum compared gay sex to bestiality, specifically “man on dog” sex.

-          Rick Santorum supports breaking up families (including separating children from parents) if the parents illegally entered the country decades ago.

-          Rick Santorum supports the assassination of foreign scientists working in their country’s nuclear programs.

-          Rick Santorum has lied about the effects of the stimulus, saying that it cost jobs instead of created them.

-          Rick Santorum supports torture.

-          Rick Santorum believes that gays should be banned from adopting children.

 

NONE of that sounds like “strong moral character” to me.  Frankly, it sounds more like fascism.

(It should also be noted that almost every single Republican candidate also supports almost every one of the above positions.)