What part of ‘private’ don’t they understand ?
No federal funding
no tax break
no 501c
“private”
The problem for Santorum is that if he tries to give a short treatise on private associations, and what he would prefer is not germane to how they run their association, the media would take four words out of it and make his campaign defend itself that Rick Santorum doesn’t think women should be allowed to play golf for the next three weeks.
You can complain about Santorum getting off message; you can complain about him not giving the best conservative answer on occasion (Zimmerman case); at least try to realize that the MSM are giving him a treatment that neither Romney, nor Newt (now that he is safely in low double digits) is getting, and Santorum is most likely thinking first about getting back to his core messages of conservative social values and a business/job friendly federal government.