Keller @ Large: The Truth About Rick Santorum

March 27, 2012 12:00 AM
Keller @ Large: The Truth About Rick Santorum
" BOSTON (CBS) – Soon-to-be forgotten presidential candidate Rick Santorum has had it with the news media.

Listen to Jon’s commentary:

He wants us to stop “distorting” and “spinning” and tell “the truth” for once, and you know something?

He’s right.

I accept that challenge, and will now apply it to a timely topic at hand – Rick Santorum.

Campaigns are grueling, flawed exercises, but they do serve a purpose.

Over time, under the scrutiny and pressure of running for high office, the true character of the candidates is often revealed, for better or, in Santorum’s case, for worse.

Since he stepped into the spotlight in January with his emergence as a competitive candidate, we’ve learned a few things about Santorum, and one of them is that he is at times an ill-tempered oaf "

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