In the last paragraph he forgot Governor Buddy Roemer.
What he did say ends him as a politician.
This is a Santorum hit piece by a no name blogger. The clip is of two Libertarians who have no idea what they are talking about just like Ron Paul. They take a few snip-its from long interviews and then babble on about him being anti freedom.
Just listen to them pimp for Paul and Gary Johnson in this interview. Libertarians are not Conservatives and they never will be. That is Santorums point and if you listen to his examples, they are sound. If the Ron Paulites “if it feels good, do it” crap is so great, why isn’t the Libertarian Party the predominant of three parties and Ron Paul running away with the nomination?
Rick, I want the ****ing government to leave me the **** alone, and that includes you!
Rick Santorum did not appeal to us to allow the government to fix a nonexistant problem from a couch with Nancy Pelosi.
I’ll take the hopefully ex womanizer with the Neptune sized ego, if that is what it comes down to.
Santorum just went way down in my eyes if this is his view. He wants government to be big? Just because that’s a common trap that governments around the world (but not the US during the first hundred or so years of its life) fell into? If he’d even say it should be smaller than it is now, that would be better than nothing. But boy, how tone deaf to say the least. And the Tea Party would bolt on this about as much as it would bolt on Mitt.
“That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
Let me ask you something, 2D Vet.
Do you believe that a culture that elevates personal autonomy as the primary good, is one that has any respect for religious faith?
Point was that conservative believe in limited government. I know you understood this, but are deliberately twisting his words to tear him down for the propellent of your candidate. How about having a point of view/argument actually based in substance and not talking points. We can’t ridicule liberals if we use their tactics now can we?
"One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right."
"They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues."
"That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
- Rick Santorum
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Hasn't he ever heard of The United States of America?
This fruitcake sounds like Obama/Reid/Pelosi!
And then promise to curtail government to those limits.
Thomas Jefferson didn't buy a bunch of ships that were authorized by Congress.
I think he made the right executive call.
/johnny
In which case, the writer is sadly ignorant of Robert Bork.
“Hot Air” is the perfect name for that site
Small government does not equate to no government.
The USA is not now, nor has it ever been, an anarchistic or libertarian nation.
If you want to live your life that way, you have choices.
Apply for a visa to live in the nation that most closely matches your personal pursuit of happiness.
So the GOP field is whittled down to:
Romney (A Liberal Progressive selected by the ruling class as the Conservative of Choice)
Santorum (A Socially Conservative smaller-Big Government Progressive)
Gingrich (A well spoken neo-Conservative Progressive)
Paul (An Antisemitic Libertarian Isolationist)
The circus has truly gone to the clowns. No matter what we’re screwed. Somebody wake me up from this nightmare.
The author was certainly hitting the sauce when they penned this drivel.
“Radical individualism” is a term I would expect Rush Limbaugh to utter.
However, Santorum is a social conservative but, also, a BIG state nanny.
I don’t always agree with Madison Conservative because sometimes he/she is not a conservative.
So, there ya’ go...
If any of the guys running now wins the presidential election, the ruling class will be happy.