On Wednesday night’s The Rachel Maddow Show, the story of how Rick Santorum and wife Karen dealt with the loss of their newborn son Gabriel again became fodder for criticism of Santorum’s presidential prospects. Although he handled it in a marginally more delicate fashion than Alan Colmes did (for which he apologized), MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson cited the incident as a “weird story” that might put off some Republican voters.
Host Rachel Maddow began the segment (you can watch the whole thing here) by detailing many of the questionable things that have yet to become the focus of Santorum coverage, including his involvement in the John Ensign scandal, and wondered if Santorum would be subjected to the same media vetting as the previous 73 GOP frontrunners from this year. Maddow then brought Robinson on, and asked him if any of his extreme social positions (banning contraception, banning abortion even in cases of rape and incest) might “hurt him among Republicans?”
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