“Santorum is NO fiscal conservative! An antitax advocacy group zinged Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s tax plan, giving him a grade of “D+” grade and the dubious honor of proposing what “may be the worst idea of any of the Republican candidates.”
” I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative, or not a pro-life statist. I would support him before I would support Romney too, but I have no intention of giving up ideological and intellectual consistency in the name of beating Mitt Romney.
Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist. He is. You will have to deal with it. He is a big government conservative. Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state. In fact, he has been complicit in the expansion of the welfare state.” - Erick Erickson
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/
Anyone who raises spending is actually raising taxes, to support his high spending. And Santorum was NEVER shy in raising spending. In his Congressman career he sponsored or co-sponsored FIFTY-ONE spending bills.
Individual freedom and limited government, are the true values that made America great. The welfare, nanny state that Santorum strongly supported, is certainly not what the US was founded on.
We do not need the government to tell me how to live and to give me values, I can do that on my own just fine.
Santorum thinks he is the man, who hold all the truth, and that he and his government have the “obligation” to impose it on people.
Thanks for all the stuff to read, and more importantly, THINK ABOUT... now if we could get the Tea Party types to look at him clearly... there is still time.. Thanks!
Someone who is not unabashedly pro-life and inflexibly so (Romney, Alan Simpson, Ron All Mouth and No Action Paul, Mark Kirk, Scott Brown, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Lisa Murkowski for a number of examples) is simply NOT conservative. It's a litmus test. "Fiscal conservatives" can take their place at the back of the bus and recognize that they are free riders of whom little is expected and less is usually delivered. If there is any political capital left after enforcing pro-life, pro-family, anti-perversion, pro-gun, pro-military, interventionist issues, then and only then should anyone get their panties in a wad over spending issues. "Fiscal conservatism" is strictly a nice to have and not a must have.