It's Out: ISI Books releases Senator Rick Santorum's first book, "It Takes a Family"

ISI Books just released "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," by Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA). It's Santorum's first book and it is in opposition to Hillary Clinton's 1996 title, "It Takes a Village."

I'll have more to say on this book later, as I'm in the middle of reading it. But, so far I like it. I think it will help bring readers of popular conservativism and politics into the intellectual conservatism fold. We'll see. I pretty much agree with Rick Santorum on almost everything. He's a solid Catholic politician who clearly puts principles above politics (except for that Arlen Specter gaff last year where he supported longtime Republican RINO Specter over the more conservative Pat Toomey for the Senate primary race in PA). But, on his own agenda, Santorum is solid as a rock. This book explains the intellectual philosophy behind his public policy initiatives.

So far, my favorite quote is on page 4: "Liberalism is an ideology; conservatism is common sense." Also, he quotes Russell Kirk on page 7 as he claims in Kirk's vision, that conservatives are "stewards of a patrimony." We are caretakers of a "precious inheritance" and that inheritance is the American founding.