Operatives warned Santorum in 2005 that book could cause problems for him later

The operatives identified nearly 30 “problematic excerpts” and suggested that some of them “might want to be edited or removed from the book.”…

“Everybody who was only focused on winning the political campaign were giving us much advice on moving to the middle and moderating our message, but that’s not something Rick Santorum would do,” [Santorum advisor John] Brabender said in an interview with ABC News. “On the other hand, I’m sure Mitt Romney probably would have taken advice to move to the middle if he thought there was political gain because Romney seems to focus on the next election rather than what’s right for America.”…

The reviewers also highlighted an excerpt in which the former Pennsylvania senator compares pro-choice Americans to Nazi Germany — a passage that made the cut.

“One of the first phases of the (Nazi) German negative eugenics movement was active euthanasia of newborns and young children with congenital malformations and mental retardation,” he wrote. “Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion of fetuses with malformations or genetic disease can be considered an earlier phase of the same philosophy — namely, the elimination of lives not worth living.”