Santorum--Blue Collar or White? Or Did the Laundry Colors Run?

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05269.html


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Subject: Santorum--Blue Collar or White? Or Did the Laundry Colors Run?

You headlined a link to Philadelphia City Paper's article on Rick Santorum:

The Path of the Righteous Man, by Mike Newall)

The author interviewed lots of people from Santorum's past, and turned up the following two quotes (pretty close together in the article):

1. "They were good people, a well-principled, blue-collar family"--A childhood friend, describing Rick Santorum.

2. "Rick's father was the chief of psychology and his mother was the chief of nurses"--the former head of personnel at the VA hospital where the Santorums worked in Butler, PA.

Excuse me? The head of psychology and the head of nursing in a VA hospital are "blue collar"? In what universe? How rich would the town of Butler have to be for both those quotes to be true?

I can't tell much about the childhood friend's motivations, or his intelligence, but I don't think you have to be too brilliant to know that the chief of psychology at a hospital IS NOT a blue collar job.

Could this be yet another part of the endless attempt by right wing idealogues from pretty cushy backgrounds to paint themselves as good old down-to-earth, salt-of-the-earth types? You know, Rush Limbaugh (daddy's a judge), Ann Coulter (daddy's a big time business lawyer), Bill O'Reilly (daddy's an accountant)......

Boy, you gotta watch those damn elites every minute of every day.

Lee Russ
Bennington, VT
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the lying liars lie

[rodeodance]

1. the privileged seldom recognize they are privileged.

[Bunny]

2. Butler is not a rich city. The elder Santorums would not have been

considered blue collar in Butler. That city has a rich history of steel mills and factory workers. A Chief Psychologist and Head Nurse at the VA Hospital would not be blue collar at all.

Butler County is a pretty red county in blue Western PA.