Rick+Santorum+Appealing+to+Radical+Right+Says+'Schools+Indoctrinate+Our+Children'

= = =//Published by the Huffington Post//= =//8/5/11//= = = = = =During a stop in Iowa on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that "schools indoctrinate our children," the //Des Moines Register// reports.= =“You wonder why young people can vote and flock for a guy like Barack Obama and say, if you look at the surveys, that socialism is better than capitalism -- well, that’s because they don’t understand America,” he explained, according to the //Register//. “I said ‘indoctrination’ and I meant it," he said.= =Santorum argued that the country's education system is leaving students with an insufficient grasp of history. His remarks come with the widely-anticipated Ames Straw poll -- a table-setter event for next year's Iowa caucuses -- less than two weeks away.= ="I think it would be great to finish in the top half," Santorum said ahead of the straw poll, Iowa-based station KTIV reports. "I think that would surprise a lot of people." According to the local outlet, the GOP contender predicted he could defeat Obama in a general election match-up should he win the Republican presidential nomination.= = = =News= =home=