[DannyTN]

"I wish Santorum would ditch this “revive manufacturing” nonsense. It makes him look like he doesn’t understand free markets, free trade, and limited government."

No, it means he really understands it. No country is going to maintain a strong economy without a manufacturing base. Research and development jobs go to where the manufacturing base is.

America needs something to trade other than our debt or equity in our remaining companies.

[rogue yam]

No country is going to maintain a strong economy without a manufacturing base.

This is hand-waving nonsense.

Define "manufacturing base". How much manufacturing is necessary to constitute a "manufacturing base" and thus enable a "strong economy".

Some people simply can't distinguish between rational economic reasoning and demagogic sloganeering. I wonder if perhaps you are one such person.

[American Constitutionalist]

Support Rick Santorum for president in 2012.. bring jobs back to America .. America needs something else to trade other than our debt !