Okay, okay, we know that you think the whole Dan Savage Santorum thing is immature and beneath one’s dignity, whatever. Go find another thread to Santorum up.
That said, I thought we could collect the best Santorum headlines while they’re still around.
I had to doctor the headline to fit OP’s criterion, and the news source is only slightly more trustworthy than FoxNews, but the article itself may be amusing enough to mention: “… Santorum … Comes Out Of His Mouth”
There are, I suppose, good arguments one might make against statehood for a non-English-speaking-majority territory – if nothing else, it would break all precedent, from the beginning of the Republic; and it would require re-examination and redefinition of what the U.S. is, what it is to be American, what is our national culture and what are its outer limits, and whether a territory/people can ever be part of it that does not have a Britain-derived culture and never will, that, as a whole, will never assimilate to the larger American culture as individual immigrants to the mainland eventually do.
But, Santorum cannot seem to think of any relevant arguments, he has to go all RW-constitutionalist and appeal to the authority of the “federal law” (which, after all, can usually/often/sometimes (depending on Congressional party strengths) be changed if a POTUS wants it, so, for a presidential candidate, just citing the federal law doesn’t end the discussion).
Well, considering English culture, the country has a monarch as head of Church, head of state and head of the armed forces. I’d say that Thomas Paine is a big enough deviation from that to make Puerto Rico’s additional characteristics pretty minor in comparison.
Not to mention that demographic changes (such as from hispanic Catholicism to Anglo Protestantism) have induced rapid cultural changes that yielded territories such as Texas (well, after some quibbling).
If I were Puerto Rico I’d take the opportunity to secede and become an autonomous anarcho-syndicalist state.