How Santorum has come from nowhere: the magic word

It’s freedom.

Amid ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, the $800 billion stimulus injection and a federal spending boom, something snapped in the steady-state relationship between many citizens and Washington.

A lot of people feel the government, finally, is really starting to crowd them. It has made them uneasy. For the Santorum audience, the call-and-response word to push back against the unease is “freedom.”

What Santorum should do:

Rick Santorum should stay in the race, repeating from now till summer the perverse link between the ObamaCare mandate and the American idea of freedom. It looks like the best argument the GOP nominee will have for a win in November.

Don’t tread on us.

(Column by WSJ’s Henninger, h/t Real Clear Politics)

Bishops talk too much . . .

. . . diluting the impact and giving pols the opening to say they agreed on this or that but not on the HHS issue (to name one on which they might speak with authority and knowing whereof they do speak).

Later, from Reader D about the bishops’ voting guide:

It’s a mine field of excuses and loopholes, WAY too long to plow through, not reader-friendly. Which is apparently what they hoped for — bore and turn away anyone wondering what they have to say on the matter of voting. It’s befuddling.

Women to Obama: We Oppose HHS Mandate | Daily News | NCRegister.com

Signed and delivered:

The signatories called it more than a little mistaken, and more than a little dishonest to try to silence those who disagree with the mandate by invoking womens health.

They noted the serious side effects of many contraceptives, as well as the killing of embryos and the fact that government contraceptive programs have led to more empty sex, more non-marital births and more abortions.

It is women who suffer disproportionately when these things happen, they explained.

No one speaks for all women on these issues, the signatories said. Those who purport to do so are simply attempting to deflect attention from the serious religious liberty issues currently at stake.

The women called on the administration to allow religious institutions and individuals to continue to witness to their faiths in all their fullness.

Not too much to ask.

Wuxtry, Obama newsletter on yr doorstep

Today’s Obama Reelection Newsletter (ORN), also known as Sun-Times, arrived safely.  It’s a handy package, slips into outer-coat pocket, easy for taking onto Green Line (or other) train or bus or even into church!

On page 3, left third, length of page, we find the Maximum Leader in an AP story (the ORN is also your best source for AP stories), saying he “would not hesitate to attack Iran to keep it from getting a nuclear bomb.”  Not if the political adviser told him it was a no-brainer, no he would not hesitate to do it or lots of other things. 

But that is not the issue here, where he also warns against “loose talk of war” (his words), which I call having cake and eating it.  Look, he’s running for reelection, right?  Don’t be so picky.

Next to him, also on p. 3, down the middle (which is not how ORN editors play things, hardly), is “IN A RUSH TO LEAVE: 7th  advertiser pulls out of Limbaugh’s show” (also AP, not linkable at S-T site).

Which follows Sunday p. 3A’s “Limbaugh apologizes for calling woman slut” (AP again), giving Sandra Fluke’s age as 30 without a blink sans reference to correction elswhere offered.

Which followed Saturday p. 2’s huge “OBAMA WADES INTO RUSH’S ‘SLUT’ STORM,” (AP, though not so identified), which spills onto p. 3 and (guess what?) a heroic head shot of The Leader, shaking a semi-fist, thumb exposed.

All in all, Saturday’s was a two-fer of the first order, boosting The Leader for trashing that man at WLS, Rushbo.

So goes the Newsletter, on your doorstep seven days at a reasonable price if you like good partisan fun.