Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is making a showing with his near win in the Iowa caucus on Tuesday. He lost the vote to Mitt Romney by eight percentage points. Since his near victory Tuesday, the other GOP hopefuls such as Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and others will more than likely be focusing on Santorum, even though that probably won't matter because the momentum is in for Romney this year. With Santorum's impressive showing in Iowa, I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to make another GOP run for president in a future primary. That's just my opinion. I'm not saying that to insinuate Santorum is the right candidate to lead this nation. Rick Santorum brands himself as a "conservative" when it comes to issues. When it comes to issues such as the right-to-life and gay marriage, Santorum is on the right side, which I don't make light of. When it comes to other issues dealing with the Constitution, Santorum doesn't fare as well.
I've linked up an article from Newsmax entitled, "Santorum Lures Iowa Voters With False Premise." It mentions many of the "big-government" positions Santorum has held which doesn't hold in line with true conservatism. Most importantly, many of Santorum's positions while he was in the Senate didn't hold up to the Constitution. He played both sides of the issue. First of all, Santorum supported the prescription drug provision under Medicare while George W. Bush was president. That did nothing but expand the role of Medicare and it has costed hundreds of billions of dollars. Also, Santorum supported former Senator Arlen Specter's bid for a fifth Senate term in 2004 over primary rival Pat Toomey. Santorum told Sean Hannity on Hannity's radio program he supported Specter in 2004 because Specter would be needed when it came to approving Bush's selection of judges for the Supreme Court and lower federal courts. That may sound plausible but Specter was an absolute RINO when he was in the Senate. Specter supported numerous positions that were contrary to the Constitution. It's been said that Santorum's support of Specter in the 2004 GOP primary probably played a role in Santorum losing in 2006.
Santorum also sought after billions of dollars in wasteful earmarks when he was Senator. He speaks against much of the wasteful spending taking place in Washington under President Obama. However, he also voted for many of the spending bills that were wasteful when George W. Bush was president and when the GOP was in control of both the House and Senate. He also voted for the No Child Left Behind, which was introduced by George W. Bush. It didn't solve the problems with our nation's schools concerning student achievement. As one can see, Santorum played a role himself when it came to growing the federal government. He's not the type of conservative he portrays himself to be.
Some of the infomation in this post came from the website TheNewAmerican.com. The name of the article is "Rick Santorum's Take on Libertarianism vs. Conservatism". (January 6, 2012)
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