A Liberal's Education (American Prospect reviews Santorum's book)

[Starfury]

Hillarious book review! :spank:

Dear Senator Santorum,

Until I picked up your bookIt Takes A Family, I had never really recognized what it means to be a liberal. It turns out I’ve been going about things all wrong. I hadn’t realized that I was supposed to be opposed to everything good, right, or true in America.

I also hadn’t realized that I’m supposed to be taking my ideological orders from a cabal of “village elders” made up of “the intellectual as well as practical leaders of the liberal movement in America.”

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“The greatest thorn in the liberals’ side,” you point out, “is the iconoclastic traditional family.”

I’m still working on how something can be traditional and iconoclastic at the same time, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out. The important thing, as you note, is that in my home, where my wife and I try to teach the kids right from wrong, respect for each other, and not to throw baseballs indoors, I am daily betraying my liberal soul.

The problem, you say, is that “The village elders dislike the traditional family because of what it instills in children and society -- traditional values. In the liberals’ ideal world there is no right or wrong; there is only tolerance and intolerance, diversity and narrow-mindedness … . Theirs is a world in which ideally nobody, not even mothers and fathers, ever judges anyone’s actions.”

I’m sure it’s just further proof that I’m a bad liberal, but as I sit here with your book on my desk, I can’t … help … myself. I … just … want to … to … judge it.

Senator, your book … is … a steaming … pile … .

Whew. Stopped myself. Maybe I’m not such a bad liberal after all.

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10097