Rick Santorum offered another stirring defense of racial profiling at airports, at a campaign event in Des Moines on Wednesday.
The Des Moines Register reports:
In taking questions, Santorum defended his past remarks in support of profiling people as potential terrorists at airports, saying “Of course not” when asked by a woman whether everyone who looks different from him should be profiled.
“This is common sense. You have to look at what the profile is,” Santorum said, suggesting that if a certain group of people were blowing up buildings they should be subject to profiling.
“I don’t want to be called a xenophobe. I want to be called intelligent,” he added, explaining he wants to protect the United States of America.
