From The Times Leader, 7/20/05:
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/12174379.htm
Santorum spares Sherwood the family-values lecture
FOR A GUY who just wrote a stinging book about family values, Sen.
Rick Santorum sure sounded mealy-mouthed when asked about U.S. Rep.
Don Sherwood’s dalliances.
"I don’t know how it’s going to shake out," Santorum said Monday
during an appearance at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center in Plains Township.
"All I would suggest is that, again, until we know all the facts and
we look at the job that Congressman Sherwood is doing and make
decisions based on the facts and the work he’s doing."
Santorum dodged a reporter’s question about whether the allegations
against Sherwood have hurt the Republican Party.
"I think what hurts and helps the Republican Party is what we’re doing
in serving the American people," he said, shifting the focus to the
media, which he said likes to focus on racy and scandalous stories.
Pretty wishy-washy, huh?
Especially since Santorum’s new book, "It Takes a Family: Conservatism
and the Common Good," lashes out at the nation’s "divorce culture" and
"hostile cultural climate," influenced by television shows such as
"Sex in the City" and "Friends."
Santorum’s remarks on Monday make us wonder what he really believes.
Does he think that watching TV shows about sex is worse than a married
man having a fling with a much-younger woman?
Sherwood, 64, has admitted to some sort of relationship with
29-year-old Cynthia Ore and apologized, more or less, to his wife and
three daughters.
Three days after a Times Leader story ran on April 30 about a 911 call
Ore made to police saying Sherwood started to choke her, Sherwood
issued a statement saying he’s sorry for causing his family and
supporters "pain and embarrassment."
Ore has spoken in detail about their relationship and recently sued
Sherwood for $5 million, alleging that he repeatedly beat her during
their five years together.
Sherwood’s voting record displays his loyalty to conservative
leadership -- siding with the National Rifle Association, the
Christian Coalition, the American Conservative Union and the National
Right to Life Committee 84 to 100 percent of the time on issues
important to those groups, according to Project Vote Smart, a
non-partisan, non-profit clearinghouse for information on national
candidates.
Apparently, Sherwood’s allegiance is paying off -- at least with
Santorum.
Pundits say Santorum’s book marks the first step toward a presidential
run.
It takes aim at Hillary Clinton -- a likely 2008 contender -- by
saying the ideas in her 1996 book, "It Takes a Village," boil "down to
little more than feel-good rhetoric masking a radical left agenda."
Santorum’s book contains many harsh words.
We wonder, why didn’t he have any for Sherwood on Monday?
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