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Were Santorum disciplined he would have avoided the issue like the plague and simply said something along the lines of "I'm a Catholic, I personally accept the church's teaching on the issue, but it is not part of my campaign and not a matter for the government to involve itself in".

I love the way you clowns encourage cowardice but it isn't surprising coming from people who manipulate the facts to make your point. After all, it became an issue because Obama mandates that we and people who oppose it on religious grounds pay for it.

People like you are even more destructive to the nation than the democrats because at the first sign of trouble, your brand of conservatism starts clutching at the ankles of those with the courage to fight..

After all, it became an issue because Obama mandates that we and people who oppose it on religious grounds pay for it.

No, it did not. You are attempting to rewrite history. Santorum made his statements about contraception being "not okay" long before the contraception mandate was announced. The only reason it did not get a lot of media coverage at the time was because no one cared about Rick Santorum because he was an afterthought candidate. As the other candidates faded and Rick emerged, people then went back and paid attention to what he said.

Rick Santorum explained why as President he'd feel the need to lecture us on why contraception is "not okay" in October of last year - LONG before the insurance mandate issue.

"One of the things I will talk about that no President has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian faith have said, 'Well, that’s okay. Contraception’s okay.' It’s not okay...."

Now that is a direct quote from Rick Santorum in October of 2011 and it is ON VIDEO.

The contraception insurance mandate was not announced till later in January 2012.

I love the way you clowns encourage cowardice but it isn't surprising coming from people who manipulate the facts to make your point.

No, you simply don't know your facts. Further, MOST of us "clowns" as you put it, aren't against contraception and do NOT want our president to be lecturing the American people on why contraception is "not okay". We ARE against the contraception mandate, but Santorum, having made those previous statements BEFORE the mandate was announced, screwed that message up because the GOP suddenly had a competitive candidate who flat out opposed contraception entirely.