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Rick Santorum Blames Sexist Book Quotation On His Wife
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 12, 2012
Modified Feb 13, 2012
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Christopher Robbins
Published Feb 12, 2012
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Although Mitt Romney still leads in a combined analysis of national polling, the PPP's latest survey has Rick Santorum at the top with 38% to Romney's 23%. Why? "Republicans are significantly souring on both Romney and Gingrich." But as with any Not-Android candidate, the more scrutiny they receive, the less palatable they appear to voters who've never been to the CPAC. For instance, Santorum was confronted this morning by George Stephanopoulos with a passage of his 2005 book blasting "radical feminists" for "undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness." Santorum's response was SO meta: "That section of the book, if you want to be honest with it, was co-written by my wife."
Watch as Santorum fails to remember the words of his own Great American Novel Scoldy Treatise.
Santorum is also claiming that Mitt Romney "rigged" the CPAC straw poll, which is usually Ron Paul's forte. Responding to Santorum's allegations, a Romney surrogate told Politico, “Rick Santorum has a history of making statements that aren’t grounded in the truth."
Oh really?
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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