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Listen up, class!
In the last 48 hours:
1) Rick Santorum has compared Barack Obama to Hitler while comparing prenatal testing to eugenics;
2) Mitt Romney has warned that cutting government spending could hurt the economy.
Two questions, class:
Which one will be a more controversial statement within the Republican Party?
Which candidate will reverse his statement within the next week?
You have five minutes.
[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]
Jonathan Zasloff is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.
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