Santorum and American Education's "New Values"

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I continue to be struck by presidential candidate Rick Santorum's assertion that the shortcomings of US students in history is the result of

a conscious effort on the part of the left who has a huge influence on our curriculum, to desensitize America to what American values are so they are more pliable to the new values that they would like to impose on America.

It's not even worth referring to the ridiculous textbook standards that are now in place nationwide. Santorum's argument lacks substance and demonstrates a lack of the very standards he bemoans.

My real question is this: What "new values" is Santorum referring to? He doesn't say, and so the statement is ridiculous on its face. Whatever they are, the left "would like to impose [them] on America." The statement has all the echoes of a McCarthy-like attack on some unnamed menace.

Fortunately, this moron doesn't have a chance of winning the nomination, but we'll still have to listen to his shibboleths until he goes back under his rock.