Santorum is a nut

Republican nut-job Rick Santorum has a new book out called It Takes a Family (a rebuttal to Hillary's It Takes a Village). CapitolBuzz has been publishing some of the excerpts (see below) and noted that "Santorum makes at least three references to the Lord of the Rings movies in the first 39 pages of the book."

• Who Needs College? "The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong." (It Takes a Family, 138)
  
  
• Keep The Mom At Home: "In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might confess that both of them really don’t need to, or at least may not need to work as much as they do… And for some parents, the purported need to provide things for their children simply provides a convenient rationalization for pursuing a gratifying career outside the home." (It Takes a Family, 94)
  
  
• Slavery Wasn't So Bad: "But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave." (It Takes a Family, 241)

A Senator in the midst of a tough re-election fight thinks it's a good idea to publish a book like this? He should lose based on his political stupidity alone.