Wednesday, July 13, 2005

More On Santorum

Blue Mass Group and Fred Clarkson have much better stories than I could write about Senator Rick Santorum's recent announcement that he stands by comments he made a few years ago about Boston's culture of liberalism being to blame for the Catholic Church abuse scandals (although, I appreciate the terseness of this post). I do, however, want to point out Tom Reilly's response, as reported by the AP:

[Attorney General] Reilly, a Democratic candidate for governor, also criticized Santorum on Wednesday. "For him to equate liberalism with child abuse is disgraceful," he said. "It's embarrassing for him and embarrassing to his party and his party should disown him."
Compare that to what's coming from the Romney Administration:
“Senator Santorum is a fine person, and we’re all entitled to make a mistake once in a while,” [Romney spokesman] Fehrnstrom said.
You have to wonder, does Mitt need the support of Santorum-fans so much for his presidential run that he can't do better than that? You'd think that he'd be more than willing to help take down a potential 2008 rival.