Santorum, on Personal Liberty (he doesn't like it!)

[Barb]

Link and prove they are Santorums words. Otherwise, shut up.

People who can't follow links end up looking like assholes.


Rick Santorum v. Limited Government | Cato @ Liberty

And thank you for making me dig, so that I could also find this:


Santorum had already dismissed limited government in theory. Promoting his book, he told NPR in 2006:

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.
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He declared himself against individualism, against libertarianism, against “this whole idea of personal autonomy, . . . this idea that people should be left alone.” And in [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03zFTTqHScI"]this 2005 TV interview[/ame], you can hear these classic hits: “This is the mantra of the left: I have a right to do what I want to do” and “We have a whole culture that is focused on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness . . . and it is harming America.”





Fool.

The CATO Institute? Those liberal assholes?

"lol" did "those liberal assholes" have a pistol to Santorums' head and force him to speak those words?

 

[Cowman]

We hate Sharia law! Let's bring on Christian Law! It's different!

 

[Synthaholic]

People who can't follow links end up looking like assholes.


Rick Santorum v. Limited Government | Cato @ Liberty

And thank you for making me dig, so that I could also find this:


Santorum had already dismissed limited government in theory. Promoting his book, he told NPR in 2006:

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right. You know, the left has gone so far left and the right in some respects has gone so far right that they touch each other. They come around in the circle. This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.
​

He declared himself against individualism, against libertarianism, against “this whole idea of personal autonomy, . . . this idea that people should be left alone.” And in this 2005 TV interview, you can hear these classic hits: “This is the mantra of the left: I have a right to do what I want to do” and “We have a whole culture that is focused on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness . . . and it is harming America.”





Fool.

The CATO Institute? Those liberal assholes?

"lol" did "those liberal assholes" have a pistol to Santorums' head and force him to speak those words?

Nah, the Cato Institute is a Libertarian think tank.

 

[Toro]

Don't try that Alinsky stuff John Wayne Gacy, you ain't smart enough.

people speaking their mind, not taken out of context = "ALINSKY!!!!!!!!"

lol



Outstanding!

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Rick Santorum, Christianist Frontrunner? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast



He is easily the politician most hostile to individual liberty on the right. He believes states have every right to ban contraception, all abortion, and any legal protections for gay couples. He disavows any secular, Enlightenent view of America's founding. For him, freedom only counts if you adhere to the current fundamentalist rigidity of the Benedict XVI church. I've cited this before, but here he is on freedom:

This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.
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Notice he explicitly cites the bedroom as the place where big government can intervene. If you are not reproducing as the Vatican demands, legal penalties are in principle possible. There is no public-private distinction. His mentor, Robbie George, takes the view that in principle, the state also has the right to penalize masturbation with criminal penalties, a position flushed out of him in the Prop 2 trial in Colorado. The only reason the two would not actively prosecute gay couples for having sex or straight couples for using condoms is for prudential reasons: it's not practical. But in theory, they'd have the Catholic church's most reactionary elements dictating your freedoms.


If you believe in individual freedom, this country has no greater opponent than Rick Santorum. And for three years, the GOP has tried to tell us that the Tea Party was about extending freedom and ending debt rather than extending the power of Christianist Big Government. We know better now.

Santorum says states should be able to BAN contraceptives?? Well I guess if men no longer wanted sex that would happen--

But hey, I am a FISCAL conservative & agree with the opt on this. Santorum is one social freak NUT-CASE--that would be certain to lose to Barack Obama. In fact that's the ONLY thing he is actually a conservative on.

Santorums EARMARK record is horrible--using it for pay to play--aka you make a large campaign donation to me & I'll make certain you get an earmark for a project. His voting record says BIG SPENDER--& Paul outed him as one of the top ten that took more from Washington D. C. Lobbyists than anyone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/u...-donations-flowed-in.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like | RedState

what exactly is wrong with STATES RIGHTS.....?

or do you think every little thing.....including what type condom you get.....should be DICTATED to you from on high from some scumbag Occupier lounging in the White House......?

 

[George Costanza]

As a firm believer in individual liberty and freedom, I can cast my vote for only ONE candidate, Ron Paul.

NO other candidate represents the ideals espoused in our Constitution.

This is why he is marginalized by Democrats and Republicans alike.

No offense, but.... Ron Paul is dangerously naive on foreign policy and international relations. That is why he is marginalized by Democrats and Republicans.

No he's not. He's spot on. Get the hell out of places we have no business being, stop trying to be the World Police and bring ALL of our troops home.

That may not be in line with the today's conservative thinking, but it does not alter the fact that Ron Paul is absolutely correct insofar as those views of his are concerned.