[Roninf5-1]

"He voted to double the size of the Department of Education," Rand Paul said. "He voted to expand Medicare and add free drugs for senior citizens and he has voted for foreign aid. Those are not conservative principles. Seventy-seven percent of the American people are opposed to foreign aid and Rick Santorum has voted for it every time it's come down."

Is any of this incorrect?

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

It is probably being exaggerated, but I’m going to research it to be sure. You can spin anything to sound awful.

While I don’t agree with it if he did indeed vote this way, none of the candidates can say that they have a perfect voting record when it comes to conservative issues. None of them!

[momincombatboots]

Truth clearly doesn’t matter anymore. Let me know if anyone actually does substantiate this. I have yet to settle on candidates. It seems to me that several candidates have a couple of very conservative things and are liberal on others. I guess we are so desperate for any conservative we are willing to overlook a few clearly liberal things. No ideal candidate.. la la la. I think there is no ideal candidate because we have not stood up and insisted on one. We have held our noses and voted establishment. I have done that for the last time.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Yeah. It’s all correct. Santorum was front and center in voting for Republican backed spending increases. That was over and above the baseline. He is, or at least was, a big government conservative. It seems like our choices this year are big government conservatives, a poor debater or a crazy libertarian.

My hope is that Santorum’s gotten religion on the spending issue. He may have. He talks like he has. I’d like a reporter to put that kind of question to him but that requires a reporter to think that the government is doing too much and apparently that’s too much to ask for.