It’s funny how often I hear that from Santorum supporters.. and ONLY from Santorum supporters. This must be the official answer to those who point out Santorum’s lack of a platform. “Well, he doesn’t need one, since not much will get accomplished anyway.” I’d rather have an active campaigner in office than the Pope.
You think Ronald Reagan was not an active campaigner? Ronald Reagan was elected president, and despite what you may think, he was a fiscal conservative. People try to claim he wasn’t now. But he had to deal with Tip O’Neill & Congress. They pushed spending to astronomical levels. They even backed him into signing a bunch of tax increases. That’s why people say he wasn’t a fiscal conservative. But he was. But he had to deal with this little thing called the Constitution. There’s a legislate branch. There’s judicial branch. The president’s power is balanced. You may not like the Constitution, and you are free to try to change it.
All those people who are telling you they will have a magic wand are blowing smoke. Maybe you should take that into consideration. Candidates who promise the moon sound nice, but they are naive and/or lying.
Reagan was a fiscal conservative.
(more recent examples: President Obama promised to close down Gitmo and end war when he became president. Woopsy, that didn’t happen)