Rick Santorum
Yesterday my daughter's school hosted a speech by Senator Rick Santorum.
Santorum was there to talk about his new book, "Bella's Gift: How One Little Girl Transformed a Family and Inspired a Nation." The Santorums' eighth child was born with Trisomy 18, a profoundly debilitating condition. 90% of children born with Trisomy 18 don't live past their first birthday. Next week, Bella will be seven years old.
So we are talking about Victory here, with a capital "V." The Santorums, as a family, are victorious.
Rick Santorum also know something about defeat. He lost the 2012 Republican nomination to Mitt Romney, and Romney went on to lose the country.
For all the astonishing, mega-stressful, beyond demanding circumstances in his life, Santorum struck me as -- well, how to put this. Calm? Sane? Normal?
I don't know how people it the public eye do it. I especially don't know how Rick Santorum does it. This morning I read that the Disney is planning a sitcom based on the "comedy" of Dan Savage. You remember him. The guy who's go-to line when disagreed with is "S*ck my d*ck," and who harbors a special hatred for Rick Santorum. I won't quote him here. If you want to read the kinds of things Savage says, here's a link for you:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2015/03/30/disney-abc-embraces-hateful-x-rated-bully-new-prime-time-show
In a world where people like Dan Savage are offered truckloads of money and televisions contracts, Rick Santorum stands up for sanity and class. Choose your side, reader.
Santorum was there to talk about his new book, "Bella's Gift: How One Little Girl Transformed a Family and Inspired a Nation." The Santorums' eighth child was born with Trisomy 18, a profoundly debilitating condition. 90% of children born with Trisomy 18 don't live past their first birthday. Next week, Bella will be seven years old.
So we are talking about Victory here, with a capital "V." The Santorums, as a family, are victorious.
Rick Santorum also know something about defeat. He lost the 2012 Republican nomination to Mitt Romney, and Romney went on to lose the country.
For all the astonishing, mega-stressful, beyond demanding circumstances in his life, Santorum struck me as -- well, how to put this. Calm? Sane? Normal?
I don't know how people it the public eye do it. I especially don't know how Rick Santorum does it. This morning I read that the Disney is planning a sitcom based on the "comedy" of Dan Savage. You remember him. The guy who's go-to line when disagreed with is "S*ck my d*ck," and who harbors a special hatred for Rick Santorum. I won't quote him here. If you want to read the kinds of things Savage says, here's a link for you:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2015/03/30/disney-abc-embraces-hateful-x-rated-bully-new-prime-time-show
In a world where people like Dan Savage are offered truckloads of money and televisions contracts, Rick Santorum stands up for sanity and class. Choose your side, reader.
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