Until recently I was a huge fan of Rick Santorum. I thought he was one of the great Conservative heroes. I was wrong!!!!
He has gratuitously disparaged Governor Perry on and off the debate stage. Santorum made Perry’s support of in-state tuition for illegals into a “subsidy” for illegals, when in fact, there is no “subsidy”. An illegal seeking access to a Texas University must satisfy residency requirements and have made active application for citizenship. (Illegals are given access to Pennsylvania colleges and universities)
Most recently Santorum seemed compelled to make a comment on the Perry hunting camp when he could have either said nothing or pointed to the absurdity of the dredged-up, unsubstantiated story. Santorum violated Ronald Reagan’s 11th rule for Republicans which is not to disparage fellow Republicans.
Santorum’s patterns and themes suggest that he is either a “stalking horse” or just incredibly sanctimonious...maybe both!
Give the people of Iowa the benefit of the doubt wherein they have seen a difference between sanctimony and social conservatism.
First of all, there's no such thing as "Reagan's Eleventh Commandment", like you're claiming.
AND, Reagan didn't say it.
During Ronald Reagan's 1966 campaign for governor of California, Republicans established the so-called Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
It was proposed by State Republican Chairman Gaylord Parkinson to help prevent a repeat of the liberal Republican assault on Barry Goldwater that laid the foundation for Goldwater's trouncing in the 1964 presidential election.
Just as Nelson Rockefeller and his East Coast cronies had branded Goldwater as an "extremist" who was unfit to hold office, so candidate George Christopher and California's liberal Republicans were leveling similar personal attacks on Reagan. Party liberals eventually followed Parkinson's advice, and the rest is history.
It was never meant to curtail rival candidates vying for the same office from taking on one another. Sheeesh!