Santorum exquisitely deomonstrates a typicial ideological ploy (common to both radical far left liberals as well as the reactionary far right conservatives) – when unable to provide rational reasons to support a claim or belief, resort to logical fallacies. In his case Santorum went straight to an appeal to tradition before he kept resorting to a red herring and slippery slope to desperately avoid answering the questions or provide a cogent explanation for his position.
Santorum exquisitely deomonstrates a typicial ideological ploy (common to both radical far left liberals as well as the reactionary far right conservatives) – when unable to provide rational reasons to support a claim or belief, resort to logical fallacies. In his case Santorum went straight to an appeal to tradition before he kept resorting to a red herring and slippery slope to desperately avoid answering the questions or provide a cogent explanation for his position.