So you believe in big government involved in your every day life? If you do, then you’re not a Conservative at all (which I suspected all along).
Santorum is one of those that wants to use big government to further their beliefs. What you dumba**es don’t realize is that when you set that precedent, there comes a day when someone gets elected whose values are not your own...but you can’t complain because they’re only doing what you advocated in the first place.
So I will say it again, I’m was against Santorum exactly for the reason that he wants to tell me what to do just as Obama does.
Now that I know you’re an advocate of big government, I know you’re a loon.
“So I will say it again, I’m was against Santorum exactly for the reason that he wants to tell me what to do just as Obama does.”
Santorum’s speech (the only truly remarkable one this entire campaign), makes several points.
There are certain ideals that must be held by we the people of the United States if they are to be free. Whenever we the people deviate from these principles to pursue libertine ideals, the entire nation as a whole suffers.
Rather than admit that Santorum is right, you’re furiously attacking him for telling you that some choices are wrong. There is a difference between liberty and libertine. The two are not the same. Living your life as you want to live your life without consequences is the most corrosive way you can live. If you do not take responsibility for your own life, then the state steps in to take care of you.
That is the point that Santorum was hammering at- poor ideals leads to poor states. People are poor, because of the choices that they make, and people are wealthy for the same reason. Santorum is arguing that the people who are well off all exhibit the same characteristics, and the peopel who are poor do the same.
You want to be out of poverty - get married at a fairly young age, have kids and stay married. Deviate from this path and you will lead your family into disaster such that the state will have to pick up the pieces.
But, that means saying that some choices are wrong, which you can’t abide. “everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.”