Santorum will falter under scrutiny

Santorum should enjoy his 15 minutes of fame.

His candidacy will eventually falter like other so-called Republican presidential frontrunners before him — businessman Donald Trump, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman and businessman Herman Cain.

Soon America will know what state residents already know about Santorum — the former Pennsylvania senator is too conservative and is known to make some strange remarks.

After being first elected to the House of Representatives at age 32 in 1990, Santorum then rode an anti-incumbent wave into the Senate.

He won re-election in 2000 but was soundly defeated in his bid for a third term in 2006 in a bitter and expensive contest against his Democratic challenger, Robert Casey, the Pennsylvania state treasurer.

Despite once being one of the Republican’s Party’s rising stars, Santorum had little name recognition beyond Pennsylvania and the party’s social conservatives.

But America is now getting to know Santorum, and what they are seeing is not good.

Santorum has taken heat for remarks he made the day before the Iowa caucus where he finished just eight votes short of victory.

Santorum is reportedly to have said, “I don’t want make Black people’s lives better by giving them somebody’s else’s money.”

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous was right to call the remarks “outrageous.”

“He conflates welfare recipient with African Americans, though federal benefits are in fact determined by income level,” Jealous told CNN.

Santorum denies he made the remarks and said the comments were the result of a “little bit of blurred word.”

“I looked at that, and I didn’t say that,” Santorum told FOX TV host Bill O’Reilly.

Santorum went on to talk about his work in bringing more federal money to Historically Black College and Universities.

Santorum should be commended for increasing aid to Black colleges but that does not allow him to get away with making racist remarks.

Santorum has a history of making offensive remarks.

He has made comments that suggest the acceptance of homosexuality will lead to the slippery slope of accepting bestiality. He has suggested the Catholic Church’s priest sex abuse scandal was caused by liberalism. He has said that President Barack Obama should be anti-abortion because he’s Black, and abortion is like slavery.

Santorum has been a leader in expressing an alarmist view that Muslims want to impose Islamic law — called Sharia law — upon non-Muslims in America. Santorum offers no credible evidence to support his claim of a creeping influence of Sharia law.

The Associated Press reported that a buoyant Santorum is campaigning in New Hampshire as if he is the Republican nominee over the more organized, better financed and GOP establishment favorite Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.

“In Manchester, Santorum campaigned as if he were already the nominee with rhetoric focused on Obama,” reported the Associated Press.

“We have a president who doesn’t understand us,” Santorum said at a Rotary Club meeting.

You are wrong, Mr. Santorum. It is you we don’t understand.