I have to say that I liked the fact that Jon Stewart wasn't afraid of asking real questions about Santorum's convictions. I thought he did well with that interview to not seem condescending or like he was out to get Rick. But the ideology that Santorum was espousing is a bit on the terrifying side, at least for me. Talk about a strong father paradigm. Did anyone else see it? What did you think?

I am cheap and don't have cable.

Crooks & Liars has it.
Should have looked before I commente.

What can I say? I wish that JS would have given Santorum the treatment that he gave Bernard Goldberg last week, but he did give that frothy mix of feces and lube a smacking with some velvet gloves. At one point, JS was saying "I'm having a hard time trying to get my point through to you, because we keep coming back to the same point". Santorum was like an automaton, he kept saying "one mother, one father beep beep boop, one mother, one father beep beep boop, one mother, one father beep beep boop" and really wouldn't address the point that JS was trying to make, that virtue isn't really tied to spirituality or sexual orientation. He did get him good when he made a bet that Santorum's book would outsell Bennett’s 'The Book of Virtues'. Santorum took the bet without even realizing that it was a joke, until JS told him that it was. Whatta friggin blockhead.

It's not every day I get to see someone I've voted against on the Daily Show. I have to say I hate him a little less, not that that says much. So now it's all clear:

1. To ensure future success as a society our primary objective must be raising lots of good, virtuous children.
2. The biggest threat to this is our R-rated culture.
3. The ideal environment for raising kids is a stable traditional nuclear family with one father and one mother.
4. Promoting a kid friendly society is something the government should be involved in.

And it all follows from there....

There are a lot of problems with Santorum's outlook, mostly because even though he understands the problems with our society, everything he thinks will fix it is either idealistic or counterproductive.

We definitely need to raise lots of good virtuous children, but denying gays the right to adopt and forcing women to have unwanted children, it'll make it harder to do so.

R-rated culture being exposed to kids is a big problem, but if we allow market forces to drive the economy without government restriction, as Republicans continually fight for, it will get worse.

A stable nuclear family is the ideal environment for raising kids, but once again, if abortion is illegal, there will be many more kids not growing up in one.

Promoting a kid friendly society is good, but Republicans only talk about doing that. What they do is driven by the bottom line and corporate need. Stunting our children's development doesn't hurt the economy for at least a decade.

Rick Santorum's outlook will work in his own fantasyland. While we're still here on Earth, we should probably try to find things that actually work.

totally right.

true support of the family unit would also include helping families which are exsisting on the edge of poverty get out of it and giving middle class families some breathing room.

how are you supporting families when you don't support a living wage? what about the family leave act? what about a discussion about a minimum vacation policy for all americans? they require 3 or 4 weeks on vacation in france and economic output has actually increased... guess what, people are happier and more productive.

families are under attack in this country- but it's not from homosexual marriage or hollywood. it's from the continuing strangling of the working and middle class that is the result of conservative "sink of swim" economic and public policies.

it's pretty hard to be a good parent when you (and your spouse if they're in the picture) work 40+ hours a week to stay afloat.