Sen. Rick Santorum was on “Today” this morning promoting his new book It Takes a Family — not a bad plug for ISI Books — and of course Katie Couric was tough on him, especially on the notion that housewives don’t feel as affirmed by society as working women. For my taste, he sounded too much like the careful politician. Near the end, when Katie noted his book title sounds like a gibe at Hillary’s “It Takes A Village,” he said he believed in building society from the family up, instead of Hillary’s vision of building it with the goverment from the top down. Fine. And then he said: “I’m not saying hers is bad, mine’s just different.”

Of course, when Hillary’s book came out in 1996, Maria Shriver was the dictionary definition of “fawning” in that “Today” show interview…