◼ Santorum is severely wrong - Gene Healy//Washington Examiner
A recent Time magazine symposium asked leading thinkers on the Right, "What Is Conservatism?" Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist offered this answer: "Conservatives ask only one thing of the government. They wish to be left alone."
Tell that to Santorum, whose agenda rests on meddling with other people, sometimes with laws, sometimes with aircraft carrier groups.
"This idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do," Santorum complained to NPR in 2006, "that we shouldn't get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn't get involved in cultural issues ... that is not how traditional conservatives view the world."
That version of conservatism has a new standard bearer, and he's rising in the polls.
◼ Santorum's voting record at odds with tea party's fiscal philosophy - Miami Herald via Lucianne
◼ Memo to the Tea Party: Rick Santorum Rejects Your Message - The Atlantic
