Focus on Rick Santorum in Tonight's Debate

From Howard Kurtz, at Daily Beast, "Rick Santorum Faces a Grilling at CNN Debate" (at Memeorandum):

The GOP’s new frontrunner will be under a harsh spotlight in Wednesday’s CNN debate after widely covered remarks on explosive social issues like Obama’s theology, prenatal care, and home schooling.

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict the kinds of questions Rick Santorum is going to get at the CNN debate in Arizona.

President Obama practices a “phony ideology” that’s not “based on the Bible?” Check.

State government involvement in public schools is “anachronistic”? Check.

Prenatal testing leads to more abortions and prompts us to “cull the ranks of the disabled”? John King, over to you.

When Santorum takes the stage Wednesday night, the glare of the spotlight will be unusually harsh. Despite complaints from his campaign about distorted media coverage, he is the one who has raised every one of these issues, along with birth control, in recent days. Reporters weren’t peppering him with questions about home schooling or amniocentesis. He’s the guy who put these subjects in play.

More at the link.

And at the video, Sarah Palin says the worst thing Santorum could do is back off from discussing these issues. That would play into the left's hands exactly and he'd be caving on issues he's championed all along.

I'll have some reactions and links later tonight...