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While his latest vocal miscue came as he campaigned in Iowa, his career is paved with them.
Civil civil rights groups recently thumped Santorum after video surfaced of him discussing Medicaid and scoff stamps. He appears to say: "I don't want to make black people's lives cured by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the wealth."
He tried to take it back a few days later, telling CNN in an interview: "I'm pretty assured I didn't say 'black' ... I started to say a word and sort of mumbled it and changed my brown study."
Santorum's comments on sex and faith as well as race have led to controversy during his 16 years in the House of ill repute and Senate and when he was an author, radio talk-show host, think-tank comrade and Fox News commentator.
Santorum once compared homosexuality to bigamy, incest and adultery, provoking a firestorm of grouse from gay rights supporters. He also blamed Boston's liberal political education for the clergy sex abuse scandal that shook its Catholic diocese, picture a thunderous rebuke from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate floor.
Source: Belleville News Democrat