John Featherman on Principles & Values

2000 Libertarian Challenger for Senate (PA)

Santorum's book is way out of step with mainstream

Rick Santorum's book shows him to be way out of step with mainstream Pennsylvania and the country as a whole. Examples? Well, the book insults and degrades women in several places. Santorum blames women working outside the home on radical feminism (Pg. 95); Santorum thinks it's wrong to help unwed mothers get a college degree (Pg.138); Santorum compares a woman's right to choose to slavery (Pg.241); Santorum believes "diversity" is an aberration or error (Pg.406); Santorum feels working families can Source: Campaign website, www.featherman.com, "Issues page" Jan 18, 2006

Santorum's book is way out of step with mainstream

afford to struggle by with one worker parent and one child caretaker parent if they "took an honest look at the budget" (Pg.94); Santorum thinks the courts are both "anti-democratic" and too "activist" (Pg.222); Santorum believes in privatizing Social Security (Pg.154); Santorum thinks public schools provide "weird socialization" (Pg.386). As we are learning, Santorum's extreme policies only go to undermine traditional American values of fair play and equal protection. Source: Campaign website, www.featherman.com, "Issues page" Jan 18, 2006

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