When the notoriously anti-gay presidential contender Rick Santorum stepped inside the Hiawatha Public Library in eastern Iowa Wednesday afternoon to explain how the Iowa Supreme Court tried to "redefine nature" by striking down a same-sex marriage ban in 2009, he begged patience: He was battling a case of laryngitis. "I don't want to lose my voice right before the debate," he said, sipping on a cup of tea from Starbucks. (Santorum was referring to Thursday night's debate in Ames, the last major all-candidate event before the city's straw poll Saturday.) But the sore throat didn't stop the former Pennsylvania senator from dishing out conservative red meat for more than an hour to two dozen mostly elderly potential straw poll supporters.
President Barack Obama sympathizes with Latin American socialists, Santorum warned, adding that Obama ousted a strong ally in Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and propped up the radical Muslim Brotherhood. On the domestic front, Santorum said, the president has crippled businesses with Obamacare's regulations and scapegoated "millionaires and billionaires" for the nation's economic woes so he can try to tax them more.
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