Apparently believing that Pennsylvania is chock full of Christian wingnuts, Ricky yesterday held firm to his previous remarks about Boston and the pedophile scandal. Maybe this is for fundraising purposes though because I can't see this winning many votes in PA. The good news is that Santorum is struggling in recent polls and he's going to be running against a well known big name from the Democrats in 2006. I may not agree with Casey on everything but compared to Santorum, it's not even close. Time to kiss those presidential dreams goodbye.
Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off on his earlier statements connecting Boston's ''liberalism" with the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city's ''sexual license" and ''sexual freedom" nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would occur.
''The basic liberal attitude in that area . . . has an impact on people's behavior," Santorum said in an interview yesterday at the Capitol.
''If you have a world view that I'm describing [about Boston] . . . that affirms alternative views of sexuality, that can lead to a lot of people taking it the wrong way," Santorum said.
