Santorum, Again

Santorum (Well, Savanarola)Politico:

As condolences and reflections followed the passing of Nelson Mandela, Rick Santorum linked the injustices the former South African president fought and Obamacare.

“He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives — and Obamacare is front and center in that,” Santorum said Thursday on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Not quite the same, I feel.

Andrew Sullivan notes that Santorum, a politician who misses few opportunities to stress his piety, is “a Catholic fighting against universal healthcare”.

Sullivan’s point, of course, is that the Roman Catholic church supports the principle of universal healthcare (while reserving the right to opt out of the bits of which it disapproves). That doesn’t mean that devout Catholics cannot disagree with Obamacare, but it does makes the force of the language used by Santorum come acriss as, well, striking….

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