Santorum is Not Our Man

In my latest post on Clarity Media’s (the guys behind the Washington Examiner and Weekly Standard) Red Alert Politics, I lay out the case against Santorum – just by looking at his record and why Republicans were losing up until 2010 in the first place. I’ve quoted a segment below, but be sure to read the whole thing. You can catch my posts on Red Alert twice a week on Tuesday and Saturday.

Santorum is Not Our Man

It’s been four long years since Republicans have been out of the White House. So long, in fact, that many Republicans appear to have forgotten why we even lost the 2008 presidential election.

The obvious answer is the financial crisis and economic recession. But there was more to it than that.

The Republican Party – the one of limited government, free markets and free people – strayed from its path. President George W. Bush and the Republican Party adopted “compassionate conservatism,” a catchy way of saying “big government as a means to a conservative end.” Ignore the oxymoron in that phrase, because apparently Republican leaders at the time did,  too.

During the decade of “compassionate conservatism,” a large number of Republicans either fell into the trap or helped set the trap themselves.

One of those men was Senator Rick Santorum, now running for the GOP nomination for President. As Phillip Klein at the Washington Examiner notes, Santorum was a “a loyal soldier” during the years of big government conservatism.

A look at the Senator’s voting record only affirms that.

Read the whole thing.

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