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One of the most troubling things about the former, defeated senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, is he relationship, or lack of it, to facts. We all believe what we want to and, as the old song went, “what a fool believes, he sees”. We are all, then, fools in some respects for deciding what we want to believe and then seeing only those things which appear to back up our beliefs. Santorum appears to be in a different category, one where, like Michele Bachmann, the world can be easily bent to present the desired facts. Below is a link to a column on this issue.

Dana Milbank in the Washington Post (1.3.12)

There’s little time left to scrutinize Santorum before the Iowa vote, and in his case, that’s an exceedingly lucky thing. Given more time in the spotlight, he would reveal himself as a hard-edged Dan Quayle.

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