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Santorum’s contraception deception

By Scot Lehigh

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 21, 2012

On the campaign trail, Republican Rick Santorum portrays himself as an unabashed, open-book conservative. But in courting religious voters while dismissing questions about his faith-based beliefs as unfair, he’s trying to have things both ways. On Monday, the former Pennsylvania senator got agitated with Joe Scarborough, a former conservative Republican House member who now hosts MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.’’

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