If that's what he were doing no one would have a problem with it.
"...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.”
Besides the completely fabricated idea that someone claimes government shouldn't get involved in cultural issues (every issue is a cultural issue when you're the government of that culture, Rick), he is proving why he doesn't have the intellect to be president, IMHO. He conflates ideas from the right, left and Libertarianism as if he is talking about one group, losing all the differences in those various positions as he argues for government involvment in all phases of life and claiming that is 'conservative.'
Your attempt to nuance his position by referencing things he didn't is desperate, and is dishonest. If he wanted to say what you claim he did, why didn't he just SAY that?
"In 2003, Santorum voted for the Medicare drug entitlement that costs taxpayers more than $60 billion a year and almost $16 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Santorum voted for the 2005 "bridge to nowhere" bill and was an earmark enthusiast his entire career.
"These days, Santorum regularly joins a chorus of voices claiming that he would greatly reduce the role of federal government in local education. When he had a say, he supported No Child Left Behind and expanded the federal control of school systems. In his book, in fact, Santorum advocates dictating a certain curriculum to all schools. The right kind. It’s not the authority of government that irks him, but rather the content of the material Washington is peddling today."
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/01/04/santorum-conservative-technocrat/
Please explain how those votes coincide with your version of his beliefs. Because they read a lot more like what I'm hearing from him, not his spinners.
“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.”
Define “cultural issue”.