Certain stories keep being repeated, but not others, about Rick Santorum. For instance, the media have been repeating the thing about taking the dead baby home. So? That's not so weird. I wouldn't even expect his other kids to react badly; seeing a little tiny body is quite different from seeing (for instance) a full-size, aged body in a coffin of some grandparent a kid didn't know very well, and maybe didn't like.

The dead-baby thing about Rick Santorum that does seem like a problem to me is the public one:
The day he tried to take a 5-year-old little girl in to the Senate chamber to hear the arguments about partial-birth abortion. He wasn't permitted (a guest must be 16 at least), but he tried to argue, saying, Oh, she's interested in this issue, and crap like that.

This was when he was still a U.S. senator.

The 5-year-old was not a precocious medical student, or nursing student or even mortuary science student. She was also not raised on a farm. I don't think she was interested in abortion until adults told her she was. And I bet they didn't tell her the facts of life first.

Rick Santorum's ideas are just poor mental hygiene.

His temper used to be a problem, too, in his earlier campaigns. Once he grew angry at a question someone asked, and after shouting that the questioner was a "paid activist! Paid activist!" -- he threw a crumbled wad of paper at the person, but missed and hit an elderly woman in the head, instead.

I think he should be a dogcatcher. Let's elect him for that. Or one of those people who are hired to shovel up flattened roadkill. In fact I would very much like to have a photo of him picking up roadkill.