If a candidate isn’t a social conservative, they aren’t a fiscal conservative. If they are not a social conservative, that means they are willing to fund HUGE social initiatives that takes money from taxpayers & economy.
That's a social liberal. A social conservative is just a mirror image. Both are willing to fund HUGE social initiatives that take money from taxpayers and the economy. It's just what *TYPE* of initiative it is.
Liberal: control over what goes into your body (foods)
Conservative: control over what goes into your body (drugs)
Liberal: forcing gay marriage onto all the states, willing or not
Conservative: prohibiting gay marriage on all the states, willing or not
Liberal: pushing abortions onto the public and spending the money to make it happen
Conservatives: prohibiting abortions onto the public and spending the money to lock up anyone that disagrees
Like I said, a mirror image. Both are big spending control freaks.
Square that with:
""What was my vision? I came to the uncomfortable realization that conservatives were not only reluctant to spend government dollars on the poor, they hadn’t even thought much about what might work better. I often describe my conservative colleagues during this time as simply ‘cheap liberals.’ My own economically modest personal background and my faith had taught me to care for those who are less fortunate, but I too had not yet given much thought to the proper role of government in this mission." –Rick Santorum, p. IX It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (2005) (Hat tip to UC above)
You wrote: If they are not a social conservative, that means they are willing to fund HUGE social initiatives that takes money from taxpayers & economy.
It can be argued that a social conservative who was not ALSO fiscally conservative, would feel compelled to use OUR tax dollars to engage in charity -- just exactly as in Rick's quote above. Charity is a moral act, and good charity is moral in that it encourages moral behavior. Government charity encourages immoral bevoir! Hello, Rick???? EXCUSE ME!
My dream candidate is the guy who is anti-abortion, anti-homosexual agenda, and who is ALSO equally committed to slashing government, dismantling government, restoring financial as well as moral freedoms to people, such as the right to choose their own school, abolish the Department of Education so local people control their schools and the teachers in them.
It's why I say, Godspeed Newt Gingrich.