Let's see... patrimony according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is defined as....
1 a: an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor
1 b: anything derived from one's father or ancestors
2 : an estate or endowment belonging by ancient right to a church
No mention of women at all there. Should we be surprised? Not when it's coming from a misogynist like Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum!
From Think Progress:
Santorum: ‘Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony.’
Last night on Fox News, former senator Rick Santorum told Greta Van Susteren that the Republican party “has to stand up for conservative principles.” They have to support the “patrimony” against “a guy named Barack Obama” who wants to upend “our social structure”:SANTORUM: The other thing we have to do is we have to stand up and say, look, America — Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony. In other words, there are things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years. And we have a guy named Barack Obama who’s trying to fundamentally rewrite everything, change our economy, change our social structure, change our economy to something new.
Santorum also praised the 75 percent of Californians who did not vote in yesterday’s special election, “because they knew enough that they didn’t know enough to vote.” Watch it: