Talking Points Memo catches Rick Santorum in an obvious contradiction, bashing Obama for wanting more people to go to college in order to “indoctrinate” them while he was running in 2006 on a platform of increasing access to college for more people.
Here’s a link to Santorum’s 2006 Senate campaign website, as stored on Archive.org. Right there in black and white is his “Commitment to Higher Education.”
From the text:
“In addition to Rick’s support of ensuring that primary and secondary schools in Pennsylvania are equipped for success, he is equally committed to ensuring the every Pennsylvanian has access to higher education,” the site reads. “Rick Santorum has supported legislative solutions that provide loans, grants, and tax incentives to make higher education more accessible and affordable.”
Here in Troy today, Santorum’s take on the importance of making college more affordable was a little different.
“There are good, decent men and women who work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor,” Santorum said. “That’s why [Obama] wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.”
“I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his,” Santorum added.
Whatever it takes, right? Any issue you can demagogue to get the morons behind you is fair game.