Santorum's Italian Ancestors Red Commies?

Well that is what his grandmother is telling the Italian weekly magazine Oggi.

But the elder Santorum matriarch doesn�t understand why he has diverged so far from the family�s longtime political stance. �In Riva del Garda his grandfather Pietro and uncles were �red communists� to the core,� writes Oggi journalist Giuseppe Fumagalli, likening the family to �Peppone� after a famous fictional Italian communist mayor who fought against an ultraconservative priest known as Don Cammillo and about which a popular television series is based. �But on the other side of the ocean, it�s like his family here doesn�t exist. Instead he draws crowds as the head of the ultraconservative faction of the Republican party, against divorce, gay marriage, abortion, and immigration.�

I guess you really can't do much about your foreign relations. The idea that there are commies in the past of the Church Lady Santorum is kind of funny.