I pretty much never disagree with Ramesh, but I dunno…I read that piece last night as Santorum–back in 2002–not politizing the scandals but talking about real differences in cultural approaches. I don’t see how he needs to be apologizing, even looking at red-blue numbers as they correspond with the scandal. I don’t think he was making a pure political point so much as he was trying to convey something more big-picture about philosophical differences. Maybe he could have said it better. But I think that’s a judgmental call. I really don’t see how this rises to the need for an apology.