You are probably right. But this make-believe soul bearing tactic of Santorum, illustrates something that needs to be addressed calmly. The Office that George Washington distinguished, is not one that should be involved in the same tactics employed by soap opera writers, to hook the susceptible.
Santorum is not intelligent enough to fill the shoes of a George Washington, or even one of our more average Presidents. His capacity to grasp the very basic issue--basic to any level of administration--that goes to what level or branch of Government has what legal responsibility for what type of decision making, is defective. He has repeatedly attacked others for understanding what he lacks, in this area; and, as such, will very correctly turn off many of us in the coalition that elected Ronald Reagan, while turning those misled by the soap opera tactic against the actual Conservatives running for office.
William Flax
Ah yes, old George, the guy who owned slaves. Sold slaves who didn’t obey him- even though he didn’t really like to sell slaves and separate them from their loved ones and obviously felt it wasn’t right. But he wouldn’t stand for the defiance because business trumped morality, and he was struggling with debt.
Brilliant mind it is true... thank God we had him at such a crucial time, but a sinner, not a saint. I think owning and disciplining slaves to obey is a far greater error than anything our candidates do today. Yet God made use of him, and through him and many others that sin of stripping men of their freedom was dealt a hard blow.
Let he who is without sin, keep on chucking rocks... and see what it gets you. But we would be better off instead of trashing candidates for their shortcomings, if we just promoted the ones we favor most by their merits.
We should take Reagan’s advice. Reagan himself said , roughly paraphrasing : don’t let perfection be the enemy of good.
Santorum is no Washington, Jefferson or Adams.