Rick Santorum’s critics consider him the perfect representative of the pro-life cause. For them, he’s sanctimonious, rigid, and a little weird. They couldn’t invent a better object for their scorn, at least not this side of Sarah Palin.
But Santorum truly is an excellent representative of his cause. Perhaps no politician in our national life has been so pointedly forced by circumstances to live up to his creed. If Santorum can seem too blithe and self-assured when he talks the talk, he has painfully walked the walk. The Santorums lost one child shortly after childbirth and have another who survived despite a grave, usually fatal, genetic disorder.
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