ROBESPIERRE RICK

It took 16 presidential election cycles, beginning in 1952, but I finally heard the quote from a presidential contender that may never be topped for sheer lunacy. Speaking at a Texas campaign stop February 8, Rick Santorum offered this bit of delusion and fear mongering:

"When you marginalize faith in America....what's left is the French Revolution. What's left in France became the Guillotine...if we follow the path of President Obama
and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that path."

Santorum, of course, was merely scoring culture war points with the extreme Tea Party and Evangelical wing of the Republican Party, the highly energized segment which is fueling his inroad on front runner Mitt Romney. Somehow Santorum believes making contraceptives available at no cost to the 98% of sexually active women who use them, of their own free will, represents a hostility to religion that moves in a straight line to the French Revolution and the guillotine.

I am not worried that my continued support for the sensible and measured policies benefiting the health of women will bring back (or rather to since America never had it) the guillotine. There is, however, a device I wish we could use on the Santorum candidacy...the Hook.