Santorum IS “Big Government Conservative,” Says Red State

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Erick Erickson of RedState.com rightly complains, “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.”

So, Mr. Erickson and friends did some digging for a couple days:

I and some friends, none of us Romney fans, have set about exploring Santorum’s record since Wednesday morning.  Here now is a non-exhaustive list of what we have found. It does not even include his support for No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, debt ceiling increases, funding the bridge to nowhere, refusing to redirect earmark allocations to disaster relief along the Gulf Coast post Katrina, etc.

This is not the record of a man committed to scaling back the welfare state or the nanny state. Had he been up for re-election in 2010 instead of 2006, this is the record of a man who the tea party movement would have primaried. The only real justification for supporting him now is he is not Mitt Romney, but I still believe we can do better.

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  • http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/2722/TMW2012-02-08colorlowres.jpg Cognitive Dissident

    Every party has its internal squabble. The real news here is that between Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, not to mention all the rest… the GOP just doesn't have the candidate that helps people overlook their differences and rise above.

    A lot of party heroes are conspicuously on the sidelines this go around. Its not hard t know who these are. They were at CPAC. Mark Rubio, Jim DeMint, Paul Ryan, etc. etc.

    They are waiting for 2016. What's a matter fellas? Obama scarin' ya?

    • awakenow

      Marco Rubio voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, giving Obama the authority to label any U.S. citizen a terrorist without any actual proof, arrest and hold that individual indefinitely without the guaranteed right to a trial. The 4TH AMENDMENT AND DUE PROCESS, HABEAS CORPUS, AND THE PRESUMPTION OF "INNOCENT BEFORE GUILTY" IS NOW DEAD.

      Do you see a problem with that??

      • http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/2722/TMW2012-02-08colorlowres.jpg Cognitive Dissident

        I see a problem with Obama doing it, so of course I see a problem with the likes of Rubio doing that.

        But my original comment supposes the rising above of particular internal squabbles.

        Don't you think that there were Republican's that were critical of Reagan? in 1980, George Bush was chief among them. But they rose above. That's the key thing.

  • jERRY

    Rick was a good Senator but NEWT is the man of the hour! NEWT is the man for the job of the President of these United States of American!!!!!

  • http://www.survivingurbancrisis.com/ Silas Longshot

    Went to the site, clicked on 90% of all this ‘big govt BS he voted for’. Found, typically, a whole lotta spin goin’ on. Total distortions of a ‘description’ of what he voted for compared to the gov site you conveniently linked to said how he voted.

    Convinces me pretty well that there’s a 90% probability you might be a Paulite.

    • awakenow

      Silas … Erick Erickson of Red State is NO Paulite. In fact, Red State is openly hostile to anyone who supports Ron Paul. Of course, you would know this if you were a reader of Red State.

      So, please attach the blame for the source of this article elsewhere.

  • fred jones

    Well here we go .We hav a rhino buy the name of Mitt. A isolational who is 77. A Teddy Rosevelt progressive name Newt. So for my money the only one we have in the bunch who is any good at all is Rick. Carl Rove and those dogooders who want Mitt to win need to shut their mouth and get with the program. We bneed to get that commie out of the White House. He and some of those jerks in the congress need to go to jail along with George Sorros.

  • guest

    There is no perfect candidate. I think it is past time Erick & everyone else stop bashing conservatives. If he doesn't I will be unsubscribing.

  • ellen

    Anything beats what we have in there now!

  • awakenow

    L Rosin, thank you this eye-opening article about the real Rick Santorum as seen by those who know him best.

    Btw, it is also a fact that the voters of PA rejected Santorum's bid for re-election by a wide margin. He was seen as arrogant, constantly at war with his own party displaying fits of temper, and on the take due his PA state funded use of education dollars ($100,000) for several of his kids even while he lived outside of PA.

    Of course, Santorum's door was always wide open to the D.C. lobbyists as well as the unions.

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