It’s interesting to hear that Rick Santorum used the word “patrimony” in his Fox News interview the other day, I think it sums up the core fear that lies in the heart of the Right-Wing Man. It is the collapse of male domination, as seen through the lens of a Biblical and political haze. Hence the desire to control what women do with their bodies (birth control, abortion) and get them back in the goddamn kitchen!
Santorum realizes he is losing that grip and so he appeals to the traditional man, the ancient man, the Right-Wing Man, in hopes of stoking fear. That fashionable, cool black guy is going to take all of that away! Kind of like how gay Dan Savage took Santorum’s last name away from him.
Alas, it is no surprise that he praises the people who “knew enough that they didn’t know enough to vote†in California. That’s his base. Or at least, it was.