I am disgusted that I am seeing the same crap already this year on here. Why are conservatives destroying their own? Santorum is attacked on an article of a book coming out about his daughter who is disabled. Why? He’s not their candidate of choice. Everyone is going to have their favorite for the upcoming primary season, but why do people have to tear down people who aren’t RINOs? You might not agree with them 100 percent, but they are basically on your side. Why must we tear down fellow conservatives to build up another? The RINOs have used this strategy for the past two cycles, and if we tear down our own, I see a Jeb Bush in our future.
Well said.
The fact is that the principal drawback against the acceptability of Jeb Bush is basically the same as that with Rick Santorum: Neither one really respects the elaborate functional differences between State, Federal, local & individual levels of responsibility--as seen by the Founding Fathers--to the extent where it will interfere with their pursuit of their own pet projects or concerns. This is the same malady that is endlessly encountered in analyzing the reckless abandon of Constitutional principles, which has characterized modern faux "Liberalism," since the era of World War I.
Santorum is not only "not a Washington, Jefferson or Adams," He isn't even a Nixon or Ford.
All of us pity his family's human drama. If he wants our prayers for his daughter? By all means! But how he bears up under that burden is wholly irrelevant as a cure for his exhibited limitations in political or administrative capacity.
Conservatives who look the other way, because Jeb Bush represents the push for uniformity, via such vehicles as Common Core; while Santorum pushes for uniformity on some issues that most of us would agree with--as applied to our own States;--are missing an essential distinction, which directly undermines credibility with young Conservatives, seeking ideological consistency in the battle to resist brain-washing by the educationalists & mass media.
Santorum will divide the Conservative base, in the precise way that some mistakenly suggest that others of us would do so.
“..Everyone is going to have their favorite for the upcoming primary season, but why do people have to tear down people who aren’t RINOs? ..”
Right on! Too much group think by some here.