Posted on 03/07/2012 10:42:35 PM PST by Steelfish
March 8, 2012 Santorum and Freedom Santorum has surfaced a concern about Obama's economic policies and the issue of personal freedom. DANIEL HENNINGER
America's long-slog presidential campaigns are a process of discovery. Candidates, voters and the press criss-cross a complex nation trying to discover where the public mind will be the first Tuesday in November. No candidate has had a more interesting journey through 2012's campaign frontier than Rick Santorum.
Few are going to forget Sen. Santorum in the early debates, stuck in the left-field bleachers, begging to be heard over such center-ring heavyweights as Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain. In August, no one thought this guy would be toe-to-toe with the Romney machine in March. What happened?
I went to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Monday to find out. Out of 1,189,530 votes cast the next day in bellwether Ohio, Mr. Santorum lost to Mitt Romney by only 10,288, at last count. He's doing something right, and what one learned in Cuyahoga Falls, an Akron suburb, is that it doesn't have much to do with the famous Santorum controversies over social issues. It's about ObamaCare. And it's about the idea of freedom.
What Mr. Santorum has discovered in this campaign is that for a large number of voters, a connection has surfaced between Barack Obama's economic policies and the issue of personal freedom. The potency of the latter is what's new, and a vulnerability for this presidency.
Freedom, or liberty, is a staple of conservative politics. Ron Paul speaks about "liberty" as libertarian philosophy, and that has drawn new support. In the Santorum version it comes out as "freedom," and it wells up from something more akin to the "Don't tread on me" motto and coiled rattlesnake sewn into the famous yellow Gadsden flag created before the American Revolution.
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This is a cool video I think you would enjoy. If you want to make it a thread that would be great for those that appreciate Santorum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7pv7sO5Gng
Romney is already preparing to take his victory lap, a victory that will doom the US to a generation of less wealth, less opportunity and less freedom.
The window for action is inexorably closing.
I believe Santorum is a better candidate than Newt, but its clear that if both continue the race belongs to Romney and hence Obama.
Together Newt & Rick could roll the dimwits into the Potomac. One of them needs to step aside for the good of the country--and soon!
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