Rick Santorum is a social conservative. He is not a fiscal conservative, and this nation is in a full-on plunge into fiscal disaster. I want a nominee whose candidacy and message are about the economy and the need to shrink the federal government - why is this not possible?
Rick Santorum is a social conservative. He is not a fiscal conservative, and this nation is in a full-on plunge into fiscal disaster. I want a nominee whose candidacy and message are about the economy and the need to shrink the federal government - why is this not possible?
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I’ll tell you why. Because if you are not a social conservative - you cannot be a fiscal conservative.
In other words - if your core values are kaput - you can dang sure bet your fiscal values are leftist.
Can you name me one politician who is fiscally correct, but socially liberal?
I feel the same way.
Unfortunately for us, there’s no way to achieve escape velocity from the damnable weight of single-focus SoCons who don’t care about fiscal conservatism, and will vote every time for perceived holy rollers like Huckabee, and now Santorum.
Barry Goldwater opined a few decades ago that the co-opting of evangelicals into the Republican Party, would ultimately be the death of it.
It is not possible since the GOP has sadly become just the other side of the Establishment coin. The GOP Establishment has no desire to see the federal government shrink in any substantive manner. Just look at the "top" players on the field for this primary season.