I’m a social and fiscal conservative. Santorum’s big-goverment record should make even social conservatives think twice.
Y’know, Santorum has a 16 year record, and he did nothing to earn the bizarre tag “big government conservative”. Never did he try to jam crazy mandates down the people’s throats, a la Perry, or get sucked in by global warming and other internationalist hoaxes like Newt. Do you know that Newt wants to make Puerto Rico a state?
I’d vote for either of them over Romney, but I have bad news: Perry, and especially Newt, will be BIG disappointments, and Santorum would be a shockingly good surprise. Bob
I think that's because big government is the enemy of both fiscal conservatism and social conservatism. Bringing back limited government IS THE ONLY WAY that social and fiscal conservatives can restore prosperity and morality to America.
By definition, big government sabotages fiscal conservatism, that's pretty obvious.
Less obvious is how much big government is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the moral decline in this nation. Social conservatives hate that abortion is legal everywhere in America. FEDERAL authority prevents any of us, anywhere, from outlawing it in our towns, our counties, ours states. Why is that? BIG GOVERNMENT -- Roe v. Wade. Seek and support a LIMITED GOVERNMENT conservative, see Roe v Wade overturned, and those of us who hate abortion will have taken the first steps toward abolishing abortion where we live; from there, the movement expands beyond.
Social conservatives hate that prayers can't be said in public schools and at graduation ceremonies, that Christian crosses can't be placed anywhere and everywhere, that secularism is aggressively erasing our Christian heritage. Well, guess HOW this happens? BIG GOVERNMENT. If you want to solve this socially conservative dilemma, advocate for LIMITED GOVERNMENT, because BIG GOVERNMENT is responsible for the problem.
Social conservatives hate seeing the gay "rights" agenda making it ILLEGAL for free people to peacefully discriminate against open homosexuality in our schools, workplaces, military, civic clubs, youth groups, churches, business, and communities. BIG GOVERNMENT is to blame, and the ONLY way to beat this social-conservative issue is to seek LIMITED GOVERNMENT.
Social conservatives hate that they are forced, with their tax dollars, to support sloth and welfare single motherhood, and have less to donate to REAL charities of their choices -- churches, the Salvation Army, etc. BIG GOVERNMENT has caused immorality.
If social and fiscal conservatives are really serious about bringing America around to becoming again a MORAL and PROSPEROUS free society, then it must seek the solution through LIMITED GOVERNMENT.