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[quote:371a1]Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) will directly challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's view that "It Takes a Village" to raise a child, arguing in a book scheduled for release this summer that America would be stronger if people focused instead on "strengthening the family." Santorum will make his case in "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," which his publisher bills as the "conservative response" to Clinton's heralded - and in conservative circles, controversial - look at the role played by the community and society in raising children. Santorum's book, published by the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute, will appear roughly nine years after Clinton's 1996 volume - just as both he and Clinton gear up first for re-election in 2006 and then expected presidential bids in 2008. While the Pennsylvania Republican said he is not criticizing Clinton personally by mimicking her book title, he noted his book reaches a different conclusion. "It is a contrast to how the left looks at structure and order in society and how I look at structure and order in society," Santorum said in an interview yesterday. "To me, government should not be about telling individuals what is best for them, or ordering society so individuals can sort of run wild and do whatever they want to do. Government should be nurturing mothers and fathers to raise children in responsible families and communities."

Santorum said his book would also discuss how institutions such as the "big media and big academia" are not helping to provide answers that are needed to strengthen the family.[/quote:371a1]

He came to my school this past December and visited our band (when we marched in the presidential inaugural parade). He gave a small little politician's speech about some of his views and forth. I don't know too much about him at the moment, but I'll probably check out his book and have a better idea of his beliefs are so if he is up for the republican presidential nominee, I'll have some sort of idea what he's about.



PS. He's a PSU and Pitt alumni rock: