Does Santorum really understand what Tea Partiers are getting at? It’s not an ultra-Paulish vision (and by the way somehow Christianity got along just fine side by side with alcohol and pot in the first 150 years of this country’s life). I don’t think he groks it, any more than he groks that the 2nd amendment is more than hunters!!
“Does Santorum really understand what Tea Partiers are getting at?”
Do you understand what Santorum is getting at? Santorum is saying that American culture has never been solely based on personal autonomy. Faith has been a huge part of why America has been strong.
The problem isn’t that Santorum doesn’t understand the tea party, but that you have misunderstood Santorum. Santorum is saying that there has to be a balance between the individual and between society. Tilting it to the individual is how we get things like, “If it feels good do it”.
“It’s not an ultra-Paulish vision”
That’s what Santorum is arguing against. He’s arguing against the Paulbot libertarian argument that the individual is the only thing that counts.
“somehow Christianity got along just fine side by side with alcohol and pot in the first 150 years of this country’s life.”
You might want to check your history. Plenty of dry counties, even today, upheld by the community not wanting the sale of alcohol in their area.
And pot? Are you a pothead? That explains why you are savaging Cain. I hope I’m not paying for your ‘rugged individualism’.
“I don’t think he groks it, any more than he groks that the 2nd amendment is more than hunters!”
So you can show me where your right to smoke pot is in the consitution.