From The Progressive
By Ruth Conniff

Just so you don’t have to, I actually read …Rick Santorum’s entire new book, It Takes a FamilySantorum, the conservative, pro-life Republican from Pennsylvania, is up for reelection in one of the most closely watched Senate races of 2006. His opponent, conservative, pro-life Democrat Bob Casey, the Pennsylvania state treasurer, has pulled into a double-digit lead. But Santorum has a strong operation and has come from behind before. He is a national leader of the cultural conservative movement. Thus, his Senate race, his rumored Presidential ambitions, and his current book tour are a kind of barometer of rightwing Christian popularity.

In It Takes a Family (the title is a not-so-subtle jab at Hillary Clinton’s It Takes a Village), Santorum shows how, in his view, liberals have seized control of every facet of our national life. It’s illuminating to see the whole unified theory laid out.

Santorum describes what leftwingers used to call the Establishment–the people who run the nation’s universities, schools, cultural institutions, media, some big business, some big labor unions, and of course the biggest Big of all, the federal government–as one giant liberal cabal he calls the village elders or the Bigs.

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