“Please eliminate my ‘multiple added points’. What do you believe that Rick Santorum is right about?”
I know you were not addressing me but I would like to take a crack at this. He was not right about anything really in the purpose of his remarks. But accidently, I think he is on to something. It isn’t that the GOP doesn’t care for the poor. Au Contraire, they care a great deal. It is just that they have ceded the field to caring about the poor to the democrats and their media pushed narrative, namely, that unless you are talking welfare and tax increases you hate the poor.
The reason the GOP-e can’t break out of the gravitational hold of this narrative is simple, they can’t embrace conservative/Christian ideas. For one, give a man a fish you have fed him for a day, teach a man to fish, you have fed him for life. Instead, they run from those teachings and arguments and apologize for them. They simply surrender and leave “caring for the poor” as a democrat pillar.
Ironic, is it not that the truth of the matter is that democrats and their policies create poverty purposefully all in the name of vote getting. And the GOP-e just sits silently, excepting the premise that capitalism and free markets actually hurt the poor. They slink from election to election hoping the poor will not turn out to vote against them because, Lord knows, they certainly are not giving them any reason or argument to vote for them.
But ... to then have a former gOp POTUS candidate come out and repeat the same lie was just too much.