GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum pledged this week that, if he is elected president, he will cease to speak of his prodecessors. “I will never mention a former president’s name when I am in office,” he said at a Westerville, Ohio rally. “Man up, take responsibility and quit blaming everybody else.”
A fine sentiment. But while a President Santorum would spare the public the obnoxious finger-pointing so frequent in American political life, his “he-who-must-not-be-named” policy will make it mighty difficult should he desire to attend a show at the Kennedy Center, fly into Reagan, travel on the GW Parkway, or have a cocktail at Lincoln.
