‘Meet the Press’ Host Actually Asks Santorum if He Will Ban Working Mothers From His Administration

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made the rounds on this week‘s Sunday morning news shows where despite his campaign’s messaging as a pro-Liberty candidate in tune with the needs of the poor and those unemployed from manufacturing jobs gone abroad, interviewers focused on the former Pennsylvania senator’s well-known positions on social issues. Both David Gregory of NBC and George Stephanopoulos of ABC pressed Santorum on his comments regarding female soldiers and passages in his book “It Takes a Family.”
During Sunday’s “Meet the Press”on NBC Gregory called into question Santorum’s perception of feminism, citing that what he has learned about the movement from his working wife, mother and sister, is respecting the choice of working or not working, not what he calls Santorum’s idea that “somehow the choice of working” undermines “the traditional family.” After Santorum described his own experience growing up in a family where his mother worked and made more money than his father, and went on to explain that the section of his book called into question was co-written by his wife in reference to her experience of not feeling affirmation from the feminist community after deciding to go from working as a lawyer to staying at home to raise their children, Gregory was still not satisfied.