OK, I have done what you asked. But just looking at the names on the links reveals what always annoys me about Newt Gingrich (since this seems to be a thread where we all get to talk about what personally annoys us about candidates).
Specifically, Santorum had this long, inviting name: “restoring america’s greatness through educational freedom and opportunity”. Without reading a word of it, I think “who could be against that? I love greatness, I love educational freedom, I love opportunity.
Gingrich?: “A 21st Century Learning System”. OK. Policy Wonk time. More “making our lives better through better government programs”.
In the details, Gingrich has some good stuff, Santorum has some good stuff. Santorum starts with parental freedom, Gingrich from reforming government.
When I see a phrase like "“restoring america’s greatness through educational freedom and opportunity,” I see the verbal equivalent of cake frosting. Empty fluff. I read on and for the next entire essay, it is similar throughout -- sweeping statements the most part of which can be said, "Who could be against that?" because it's safe and general. Lots of telling what he'd do, but not a lot of showing.
When I see "A 21st Century Learning System" I see policy wonk. I read on, and I see specifics, some I like, some I don't. I see words and language used to SHOW how he'd do what he explains he wants to do.
There's a difference between telling and showing in writing. Telling is a sign of weak writing, and weak writing is a sign of scattered, and even lazy thinking. The fact that Newt shows things tells me he knows what he's doing.
Godspeed Newt Gingrich.
You are missing a very big element of parental freedom, simply that if 50% of the student population had to rely on their parents for their education, or for supplementing or managing their education, they would be consigned to a terrible fate... especially in the inner cities.
You are right, absolutely, Sanctimonium has all the words, all the neat phrases, and you said it exactly, “Without reading a word of it...”
Newt supplies solutions, thought-out, developed, evolved solutions, culminating years of study and and work.
Santorum has also taken to quoting, sometimes verbatim, positions which Newt has espoused for years... as his own... he is not a thinker... America needs a thinker, and a fighter...