Santorum: I don't care about the jobless

IF YOU ARE WONDERING how Rick Santorum is breaking new ground as a pretender to the White House throne, check his latest toxic reference to people who are out of work:

"I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be. It doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment."

He said what?!?!? Yep, that was how he reacted to Mitt Romney's frequent references to being highly qualified to preside over America's economy. And that was a single day before the Illinois primary.

But we shouldn't be misled by Santorum's daring, finger-pointing assault on his opponents - particularly Romney's Mormonism, which some people argue is a cult below the reach of Christianity.

Fact is, Santorum is practicing his Catholicism as a cult, much of which he has developed from his close association with Opus Dei, the secretive Catholic society of true believers. The former Pennsylvania senator leaves no doubt that his heated religious war on secularism - which embraces a war on contraceptives, women's health and pandemic pornography - has given him cover to utter his maniacal indifference to the unemployed and human decency.

(For the full story on Santorum and Opus Dei, you can find it in today's online Washington Post.)

Meantime, keep in mind that Santorum's wife Karen says that her hubby is running for president because it's God's will. Sorry, but Sarah Palin and Rick Perry, two dead-end ex-candidates, also told us that God willed them to run.

If that were so, the Lord led these people away from the promised land.