Santorum is Wicked Hardcore

It looks like Junior Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is trying to pick a fight with Boston -- over the Catholic priest/molestation scandal. Brian McGrory, a Boston Globe columnist, had this to say this morning in response to a 2002 article wherein Santorum blames liberalism and Boston for priests wanting to diddle little kids:

So I asked a Santorum spokesman whether the senator still believed what he said about Boston. I mean, guilt might be our greatest natural resource, but do we really have to fall on our collective sword over wayward priests?

"It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases," said Robert Traynham, the Santorum aide. "I think that's what the senator was speaking to."

Dude. What?

As if Pennsylvania doesn't have a reputation for being somewhat backwards as it is (Philadelphia excluded, of course) -- now we have a Senator representing our state saying (more) idiotic things and inviting Boston residents to hate on us?

Luckily, it looks like Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has invited Santorum to visit Boston and "see what it's all about." He even offered to send a welcome wagon. Mayor Menino and Bostonist, you can keep him.