[BenKenobi]

“Where has the hysterical drug “war” gotten except worse and worse gangs and drugs?”

Show me where the constitution says you have the right to smoke pot. You said that it’s exactly the same as the 2nd Amendment. Show me please.

“Things which were hardly ever seen when it was a low key thing that churches and polite society addressed in extra-governmental fashion?”

Again, the community has always had the right to regulate the buying and selling of alcohol, even today. So if you are arguing that there exists a right - no, there is no such right and has never existed the right to drink and smoke wherever you want when you want.

Now, if you are talking about the right to do so on your own property, that is one thing. But there have always been laws regulating the buying and selling, and consumption of alcohol.

“And you have not explained why it’s Santorum’s perceived role to pontificate”

Santorum is explaining why his position is superior to the Paulbot position.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Santorum is even higher horsey than Gingrich or Perry.

And where did the commerce clause ever get to the point where the Federal government could step in where locales could formerly have their own rules? This is a constitutional abortion, never meant by the founding fathers, and we are not invited to carry on this abortion.

[JRandomFreeper]

Show me where the constitution says you have the right to smoke pot.

You have it perfectly upside down. The Constitution doesn't say that you have the right to breath.

The Constitution is a LIMIT on federal government. The Constitution does not give rights, it restricts government.

I don't smoke pot, but I do rake the alleged conservatives over the coals for getting the Constitution upside down.

/john

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Show me where the constitution says you have the right to smoke pot.

The Constitution does not grant us rights, nor are our rights limited to those listed in the Constitution. Our rights are inalienable and intrinsic, and the Constitution explicitly forbids Congress permission to infringe on some of these rights.

Santorum's lack of respect for individual rights and freedoms is noted, and I will not vote for him under any circumstance. The social conservative instinct to use government to dominate private citizens is no different than the liberal instinct to use government to dominate private citizens. Only the specifics of the agenda are different, and even there you can find areas of agreement. And no, I do not use marijuana.

[RasterMaster]

Santorum stated in an interview last week that decisions made in government do have moral and social consequences. The interviewer commented that moral/social and economic issues are intertwined.

While starting with Woodrow Wilson, amped-up by FDR, then kicked into high gear by LBJ’s social engineering, government created the moral decay in inner cities and decimated two-parent families. It cost the taxpayers billions to prop up his failed policies.

Promoting LIFE should be a major platform item in the Republican party. When people have a common respect for life, they have a stake in ensuring the means to protect it and encouraging policies that maintain prosperity.