The irony in Rick Santorum complaining about an "ever-increasing size of government" is rich. And yes, both are terrible racists.
Is an inability to empathize with those who have suffered from racism it itself sufficient to label one a racist? If so that's a fairly low standard, which helps explain why he and O'Reilly are such terrible racists when compared to such great racists as Theodore Bilbo, Ibn Khaldun, and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda or even middling ones such as Woodrow Wilson and Rudyard Kipling.
Those five (although I'm puzzled why you included Ibn Khaldun in there) all have something in common which would improve my (and I'm sure many others') opinion of Santorum and O'Reilly immensely.
