Speakeasy: Bono’s old Santorum quote

“I would suggest that Rick Santorum has a kind of Tourette’s disease; he will always say the most unpopular thing. But on our issues, he has been a defender of the most vulnerable.”

U2 frontman Bono, talking with New York Times columnist David Brooks in 2006 about presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, whose strong showing in the Iowa caucuses puts him in the spotlight as the GOP primary progresses. Brooks echoed the quote in a recent op-ed about Santorum in the New York Times.

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