Slick Rick the Ideologue

Jon Stewart had Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Obviously) on The Daily Show last week. I choked down as much of his hateful, closed-minded vitriol as I could but ended up fast forwarding through the last half of the interview to save what little sanity I have left. The primary reason he was on the show was to hawk his latest literary raving: It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good.

I was hoping for a better dissection of Santorum's ideology but Stewart either has too much compassion and decency, or not enough balls, to properly tear into Santorum. Anyway, the rebuttal of Santorum's points I was hoping for can be found by following this link, which contains a complete unraveling of the whole premise of Rick "Frothy" Santorum's book. I remember yelling at the TV how Santorum had no fucking clue what would constitute -- based upon actual history rather than some Reich Wing eutopian dream -- a "traditional" family or the "values" thereof and it turns out I was right. (I knew I was).