The Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage will be providing endless joy in GOP candidate watching in the coming months and Rick Santorum did not disappoint Sunday on
Fox & Friends. Santorum bemoaned the fact that President Obama has spent time using the bully pulpit to talk about climate change. Caitlin MacNeal
reports:
"Can you imagine if instead of this president spending all his time talking about global warming, if he talked about the importance of marriage and fathers and mothers taking responsibility and raising their children in healthy homes?"
Santorum said that in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the country should "have programs that support the idea of marriage and togetherness in order to raise children."
"That, to me, is the most important thing we can do as a society, is begin to lift up marriage as an institution that’s important for the survival of our country because too many children are falling through the cracks," he said.
Oh, Rick. First of all, I'm pretty sure you have no idea what Obama's been talking about since he has addressed those issues in all kinds of ways—just not to your liking.
But mostly, I am reminded of the fact that during the 2012 election, Obama's internal polling suggested the only two issues that really motivated millennial voters were the environment and same-sex marriage. (This was reported in Jo Becker's book Forcing the Spring and mentioned here and my own reporting also bore this out on both issues.) Santorum's insights on both counts will turn all those millennials on to Democrats. Thanks, Rick.