Whom exactly are you claiming that Santorum told that ‘made it a public issue’? You sound like you’ve never heard of ‘opposition research’. If you don’t know exactly whom ‘was told’, you can’t honestly claim that Santorum made it a ‘public issue’, can you? So why don’t you drop your unfounded assumptions - you sound almost as bad as a-hole Colmes himself.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html
Do your research before you speak on a subject you are not knowledgeable in.