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October 17, 2007
"Wait, Honey, The Lens Cap's Still On."
W
hen Rick Santorum went before the TV cameras to concede the loss of his Senate seat in November of 2006, his family was with him. His little daughter Sarah was, quite understandably, crying. The family kept her on national television as she cried and buried her head in her father's sleeve. This led to a lot of commentary.
It has also now led to a country song by Martina McBride:
In these times in which we liveOK, fair enough, but here's where things get a little freaky for my tastes. Read this account of how former Senator Santorum broke the news to his daughter that her on-camera tears had made their way into a Martina McBride song:
Where the worst of what we live
Is laid out for all the world on the front page
And the sound of someone's heartbreak
Is a soundbite at the news break
With a close shot of the tears rollin' down their face
Santorum found out about the song through Joe Lessen, a registered lobbyist for America’s Health Insurance Plans who is married to an aide to former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). The Lessens know Satcher and Santorum, with the latter two meeting years ago at an event for Frist’s political action committee."He asked his oldest daughter to get the video camera?" Maybe someday young Sarah Maria will be glad that her father was so intent on capturing the peaks and valleys of her emotional life on film.Word eventually filtered to Sarah Maria, a big McBride fan.
Santorum sat her down at the kitchen table. He asked his oldest daughter to get the video camera. And he told Sarah Maria.
“She started crying again,” Santorum said.
Or maybe it'll just make good footage for a campaign commercial when daddy runs for governor in 2010.
Posted by Eric at October 17, 2007 1:42 PM