. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: ROMAN CATHOLIC : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN: CHURCH AND STATE RELATIONSHIP : Women Have Santorum Pegged . . Women Have Santorum Pegged Posted at 11:34 AM ET, 02/24/2012 By Jennifer Rubin Washington Post Post Opinions Right Turnhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/ women-have-santorum-pegged/2012/02/23/gIQANxYXXR_blog.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/7zrt5vd . .I do not think it is coincidental that, like me, the three prominent conservative columnists to recently criticize Rick Santorum for sabotaging himself and undermining his electability are all women.
.Noemie Emery writes about the time-bombs Santorum has left in the form of speeches and video clips:
. snip .Kim Strassel has similar concerns. While praising him as a man of deep faith, which many Americans might admire, she cautions:
. snip .And, finally, her colleague Dorothy Rabinowitz concurs that it is that compendium of pronouncements on religious and social issues that testifies to a profound tone-deafness and haunts him now.
. snip .To be blunt, conservative women have to do a lot of debunking and disabusing to explain why the GOP is not at war with women and why conservatism is not antithetical to the hopes and dreams of modern women. With Santorum it becomes impossible. A Santorum nomination would set back the efforts of the Republican Party to, pardon the expression, be more than the old, Southern white guys party. It would undermine the work of serious women social conservatives (all conservatives, actually) to have as their standard bearer a man who thinks women have been bamboozled by radical feminists into working outside the home. (The three journalists quoted above are among the least bamboozable women I can think of.) A Santorum nomination would trade in a serious, grass-roots movement based on personal responsibility, limited government and the free market for a three-ring circus in which the candidates views on gender and sex are the main act.
.Republican voters, I think, will figure this out. (And eventually even the rest of the conservative media will clue in. ) At least I hope so, for I do not want to have my analysis proved correct by a landslide of epidemic proportions that would make 1964 seem like a minor bump in the road for the Republican Party. More to the point, I don't think the country or the West can take four more years of Barack Obama, so the Republicans had better find someone that doesnt scare most of the electorate.
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