Santorum says idiotic thingsBy Tom Smith
This
senator needs a minder.
Boston's generally liberal climate has little or nothing to do with pedophile priest scandals. This
book, which I found riveting, but that may just be me, explains the cultural background very well. It does have to do with a permissive culture within Catholic seminaries in the late sixties and seventies, but that's a very specific thing. (The book must be taken with some salt, but it does say things most in the Church won't say.) It is hardly the same as plain old working class Democrats in Boston thinking the Kennedys can do no wrong. For heaven's sake, many of the liberals Santorum is talking about just learned their politics from their ancestors, who had progressive politics, but fired Katie O'Mally the maid for stealing a pound of cheese so the little ones would have something special to eat on Christmas.
posted by thomas at 7/13/2005 10:02:00 PM
