Running against Reagan is not going to get you far on FR - and to compare RS to RR is not going to be helfpul either. While your Weekly Standard piece makes some good points, I would suggest you Google “50 Things You Don’t Know About Rick Santorum” - which is a Santorum campaign document from his campaign for the Senate. Most of those “50 things” are trying to convince PA liberals that he too, is one of them. In other words, in his last campaign, he very much acted like a Democrat.
Hey, I’m just the messenger here......Santorum’s people wrote that thing....
I absolutely didn’t compare Santorum to Ronald Reagan. I don’t believe you can do that - unlike some people in here I’m a realist. Read the original post I responded to. I would suggest that all of you take a step back and think about how all of these candidates are REAL men and so are you sitting behind your computer screens at least half the time falsely accusing them. Until the party unites and ceases to bow down to Karl Rove, the Drudge Report, and crazy Paulbots (currently posing as conservatives), it will implode soon. Rush was right. The left loathes the word “Republican”, not the word “conservative”. Republicans are allowing code words in 2013 like: “liberty” and “freedom” to be thrown around by paulbots to rebrand the party and they are letting the party slip away. Voters will be duped again, and conservatives will lose their grip. Do not settle, stay true, stop looking for something NEW.