Santorum doubles down on his extreme views

On "Face the Nation" this morning, an incredulous Bob Schieffer asked Rick Santorum, "What in the world were you thinking?" in reference to his recent comments that Obama's agenda is not based on the Bible but on some "phony theology."

Santorum again said he did not question whether Obama is himself a Christian.

"But I am talking about his worldview, the way he addresses problems in this country, and they're different than most people view it in America."

 Yeah?   Then how come he's beating you by 8% in national polls?

But Santorum wants to double down, in answering Schieffer (quoting from HuffingtonPost):

"I was talking about the radical environmentalists," Santorum said, suggesting that they believe man should protect the earth, rather than "steward its resources." "I think that is a phony ideal. I don't believe that's what we're here to do ... We're not here to serve the earth. That is not the objective, man is the objective."

Earlier in the day on Saturday, Santorum had also said that health insurance plans shouldn't be required to cover prenatal testing, because that testing results in more abortions, as well as contending that government-run public education was "anachronistic". . .  

Asked by Schieffer about his claims that prenatal testing leads to more abortions, Santorum insisted that this was "a fact."

"We're talking about specifically prenatal testing, and specifically amniocentesis, which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb. And in many cases -- and in fact in most cases -- most physicians recommend, if there is a problem, they recommend abortion," Santorum said. . . .

He had more to say.   But I think this is enough to make the case.

Ralph