QUESTION: Do you believe that there should be any legal exceptions for rape or incest when it comes to abortion?
SANTORUM: I believe that life begins at conception, and that that life should be guaranteed under the Constitution. That is a person.
QUESTION: So even in the case of rape or incest, that would be taking a life?
SANTORUM: That would be taking a life, and I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.
This was on Meet The Press on Sunday, not Fox News or some batshit crazy right wing radio show. That lays down a market in the GOP race. No going back from that unless he pulls a Gingrich and claims that any of his quotes from Sunday are a complete falsehood.
Just this weekend Pawlenty comes out with an economic plan that cuts more taxes than Ryan ans assumes a 5% GDP growth for a decade. Even Chris Wallace makes him look like an idiot, then Bachmann tops that from the safety of the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Santorum then stakes a marker in the furthest reaches of the abortion debate, a position that anyone marginally beyond the lunatic fringe would find abhorrent.
Maybe Mittens will get the nomination in the end only because he isn't totally insane.
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