So any conservative running for office better dang well hew to it.
And Santorum is about as far from it as Romney... heck, I'd go so far as to say that Santorum is further away than that. Closer to Obama.
For both believe in the moral purity of their beliefs... and use it to justify government control over the lives of all Americans. Whereas Romney has no beliefs to use in justifying anything.
And they know more about his conservatism than you do.
“use it to justify government control over the lives of all Americans.”
Besides, he’s a freaking hypocrite.
Tom Allen, a Pittsburgh-based OBGYN who had co-founded the city’s first abortion clinic, delivered Santorum’s future wife, Karen, and gone on to share an apartment and a bed with her for seven years.
“When Karen told me she was moving out,” Allen said, “she said, ‘You’d really like Rick. He’s a lot like you. He’s politically active and he’s pro-choice.’”
Rick Santorum In 1995: ‘I Was Basically Pro-Choice All My Life, Until I Ran For Congress’
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