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Santorum Contra Mundum

125835-977292-thumbnail.jpgI always forget the basic rule of blogging: always link to you own stuff. The kids are talking about a piece I wrote on Former Sen. Rick Santorum just before I went on vacation. It's a milestone article, for the Senator, I think - in that it is probably the first piece about him that was neither glowingly positive or referred to him as "Mr. Man on Dog." Progress, I think.

It doesn't come through in the piece but even though I think the former Senator's ideas about foreign policy are off the wall, he was an especially kind interview and I get the impression that he is a very decent man in his personal relations.

Posted on 8/17/2007 11:48 AM by Registered CommenterMichael Brendan Dougherty in | Comments4 Comments
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Reader Comments (4)

Don't worry Mike, all those foul mouthed liberal bloggers will take care of the man on dog references.
8/17/2007 01:19 PM | Unregistered CommenterMatt Zeitlin
No worries at least his brother makes a grea neighbor to my parents. And really isn't any republican loss a loss for all of us?
8/18/2007 09:14 PM | Unregistered CommenterNew Diva on the Blog
Michael, I enjoyed your piece a lot--good writing. But I have a lot of trouble seeing Santorum as some kind of champion of Modernity rather than as one kind of fundamentalist who wants to be victorious over other kinds of fundamentalists. A pox on both their houses.
8/19/2007 04:32 PM | Unregistered CommenterBetsy
There's a great deal of truth in what Betsy says, inasmuch as Senator Santorum's brand of conservatism has more in common with American Fundamentalism (i.e., the people who actually call themselves "fundamentalists") than with, say, Catholic integralism. Keep in mind, however, that there's a decidedly low-Church, millenarian strain about said movement, and more than a few intellectuals (Weber being one) credit the low-Churchers with bringing on modernity. It makes even more sense if one considers the enthusiasm of the so-called "Religious Right" for harnessing the political intrigues and modern technology of the American state to bring about the Rapture and the Great Tribulation.
8/20/2007 12:31 PM | Unregistered CommenterNicholas G.P. Moses

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