This makes no sense at all. Rick Santorum, who champions family values in nearly every one of his speeches, should be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rush Limbaugh, who properly and correctly labeled Ms. Fluke a ‘slut’ based upon her OWN admissions of her personal behavior.
Santorum needed to think this through, and he clearly didn’t.
Look, Santorum has a campaign to run.
Shooting conservative-speak from the hip, leading with his chin, and stepping on his tongue is the centerpiece of his campaign, and the pratfalls of stepping on the pitchfork and getting hit in the noggen will begin to pile up.
He campaigns contraception Right, but legislates squarely at union center-left. Not far enough to get their vote, but far enough to pander.
I don’t know where you get this, but family values people don’t go around publicly calling people sluts. I would not want my children hear me using that word on air. While I disagree with the choices some people make, I don’t the government to restrict those choices nor sanction them. It’s part of Rush’s entertainment MO to call her a slut, and any politician of any stripe would be stupid to echo him.