Rick Santorum Is For Freedom, Except When He’s Not
Peter Suderman | January 4, 2012
Freedom, eh? And the belief that individuals manage their own affairs better than the government? That’s Santorum’s essential issue? If I didn’t know better, I might think this was satire.
Is there any candidate in the GOP race less invested in freedom, and the idea that individuals are better equipped than government to make decisions about their lives, than Rick Santorum? He’s for freedom,
except for the freedom of same-sex couples to get married. He’s for freedom,
except when state governments want to enforce sweeping bans on types of private sexual activity between consenting adults. He believes that government doesn’t do things better than we do for ourselves,
except for “allocating spending” through pork-barrel earmark projects, and funding religious organizations to do social work, and spending hundreds of millions of federal dollars to promote the benefits of the same state-sponsored marriage that he’s worked so hard to deny to gays. He wants to avoid government-driven, top-down policy solutions—
except when he votes to pass a brand new prescription drug benefit without paying for it. He's a freedom fighter, sure. By which
I mean he seems to spend a lot of time fighting against freedom.
Read David Harsanyi on Santorum's big-government conservatism. And check out Reason's Santorum candidate profile here.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/01/04/rick-santorum-is-for-freedom-except-when
