Daily Santorum: No Perry this time

As we noted yesterday, Rick Santorum is indeed avoiding criticism of Rick Perry -- on one thing at least.

The Des Moines Register asks him about the flap over the racially-charged name to the Texas governor's former hunting lodge:

“Oh, the ranch,” Santorum said. “Yeah, yeah, I saw that. I don’t believe Rick Perry’s a racist. I don’t know all the details. There seems to be some argument as to what the details are, but to me that’s, I think that’s a side issue. It’s unfortunate that he’s being hit with that, but my feeling is I’m sure — at least from everything I hear — that he covered it up and turned it over.

“It’s one of the sad vestiges of that past that people who live in that area of the country unfortunately have to deal with and hopefully they’ll be able to put that issue to bed, and that’s about all I can say.”

Santorum finished up a long weekend swing around Iowa yesterday, and made some comments in Grundy Center about the the American family fabric being hurt by incentives for parents not to be married. NBC news did a fact check that said tax breaks are actually better for married couples, but that some of the related numbers he used were a little (but not too much) off.

Regular readers of Daily Santorum know the ex senator is on friendly ground in the digital pages of Catholic Online. Their latest pro-Santorum piece, called "Cyberbullying," is on his Google Problem and says Dan Savage "is debased. He is maliciously seeking to destroy the name of a good man who has spent a career in public service." (Interesting title, by the way: the piece doesn't mention it, but Savage's current project is on protecting gay/lesbian/bi/transgender teens from bullying.)