“I got some real concerns about this movement with in the republican party and tea party movement to sorta re-fashion conservatism. and I will vocally and publicly appose it and uh do my best to correct the record.”
Rick Santorum.
Dont take my word go listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8smmN5QWf8
There is a bit more from Rick’s speech here, although it’s still chopped up. It sounds like he was talking about trying to keep libertarian influence out of the Republican party. At that point in time, he may have thought the Tea Party was about the Ron Paul types more than anyone else. There certainly are a few of those anarchist OWS-wannabe Ron Paul libertarian kooks claiming the mantle of the Tea Party to this day, and of course Rand Paul was a Tea Party candidate. If that’s what he was talking about, I wholeheartedly agree. The Ron Paul libertarian types are in the wrong party if they’re Republicans or Tea Party people. They would destroy conservatism. Rick goes on in the speech to talk about cutting entitlements.
Ok, I found the article fully debunking that Santorum was bashing the Tea Party as we know it in that video. At the time he was equating the Ron Paul/Rand Paul and libertarian movement with the Tea Party. I think it’s still an issue for the Tea Party, separating the patriotic conservative Americans from the Ron Paul anarchist libertarian kooks and cranks. Santorum was explaining in this answer why he did not back Rand Paul for Senate. Good for him. Santorum is a traditional conservative, not a Paulite libertarian anarchist radical.
http://www.therightscoop.com/definitive-proof-santorum-does-not-have-concerns-about-the-tea-party/
24:05 Pennsylvania Press Club Moderator:
Should the Public Accommodations Section of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill be open for revision?
24:11-25:35 Rick Santorum:
No. Look I supported Trey Grayson over Rand Paul and there was a reason for that … I am not a Libertarian and I fight very strongly against Libertarian influence in the Republican party and the conservative movement. I don’t think the Libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution is all about. I don’t think they have it right as to what our history is and we are not a group of people who believe in no government. We are a people that believes that government has a role to play: federal government has a role to play, state government has a role to play and local government has a role to play; and when there are clear wrongs in society, when there are injustices in society, sure you handle it at the local level if you can, but when the local and state level are in cahoots with the injustice, then the federal government has to step in and do something; and I’m just hopeful that is a mistake that will be corrected by Mr. Paul, but as I’ve said before, I have some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party and the Tea Party Movement to sort of refashion conservatism and I will vocally and publicly oppose it and do my best to correct the record.