Senator Rick Santorum counting on the Pennsylvania Pastors Network

Following the example set by the Ohio Restoration Project, the PPN is organizing Christian conservatives to save Santorum's career

After two-term Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum's book, "It Takes A Family: Conservatism and the Common Good" -- a sort-of rebuttal to Senator Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village" -- was published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (website), moaning and groaning was heard from the usual anti-Santorum crowd. But the anti-Santorum folks weren't completely alone; a resoundingly negative review also appeared at the website of Christianity Today, where reviewer John Wilson wrote: "Every Christian on the front lines of the culture wars should read this book -- as an example of how not to go about it."

While the book contains "well-reasoned policy recommendations and telling anecdotes...from the start, [it] has a divided heart," Wilson maintained. "Santorum's contemptuous references to 'liberals,' 'village elders,' and 'the Bigs' (this from a candidate who boasts Wal-Mart as a major donor) are pitched to the right-wing choir. One moment sneering in full talk-radio mode, the next moment sanctimoniously quoting Tocqueville, Santorum wants to have his cake and eat it, too."