The trouble with my uncle, Rick Santorum

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http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/03/the-trouble-with-my-uncle-rick-santorum/

By, John Garver

If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum. America is based on a strong belief in individual liberty. My uncle’s interventionist policies, both domestic and foreign, stem from his irrational fear of freedom not working.
 
It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work with each other freely. When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them as a senator. The reason we have so much debt is not only because of Democrats, but also because of big-spending Republicans like my Uncle Rick.
 
It is because of this inability of status quo politicians to recognize the importance of our individual liberties that I have been drawn to Ron Paul. Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions. He believes that an individual is more powerful than any group (a notion our founding fathers also believed in).
 
Another important reason I support Ron Paul is his position on foreign policy. He is the only candidate willing to bring our troops home, not only from the Middle East, but from around the world.
 
Ron Paul seems to be the only candidate trying to win the election for a reason other than simply winning the election.
 
This year, I’ll vote for an honest change in our government. I’ll vote for real hope. I’ll vote for a real leader. This year, I will vote for Ron Paul.
 
John Garver is a 19-year-old student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. John is a strong supporter of Ron Paul despite his love for family member Rick Santorum

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No coincedence that this guy is 19 years old.

Santorum is also a bit right wing for me on social issues, and he is a political dufus for making them such a big part of his political crusade over the years - this sort of stuff is better left for pundits and political commentators such as Dennis Prager. But this whole perception of Republicans caring more about social issues than economic issues and wanting to interfere with your life and "getting in your uterus" is really immature and speaks to the dark crevises of peoples crappy nature. So even though Im supporting Romney and even though Santorum comes off as a douchebag, and even though his ZERO tax rate for manufacturing plan is retarded, I do have a tendency to want to defend him.

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But this whole perception of Republicans caring more about social issues than economic issues and wanting to interfere with your life and "getting in your uterus" is really immature and speaks to the dark crevises of peoples crappy nature.

It's true though. Social conservatism in public policy is nothing more than a form of social engineering, plain and simple.

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No coincedence that this guy is 19 years old.

Santorum is also a bit right wing for me on social issues, and he is a political dufus for making them such a big part of his political crusade over the years - this sort of stuff is better left for pundits and political commentators such as Dennis Prager. But this whole perception of Republicans caring more about social issues than economic issues and wanting to interfere with your life and "getting in your uterus" is really immature and speaks to the dark crevises of peoples crappy nature. So even though Im supporting Romney and even though Santorum comes off as a douchebag, and even though his ZERO tax rate for manufacturing plan is retarded, I do have a tendency to want to defend him.

I would never defend anyone who makes such obviously stupid remarks. His response to his nephew was that he is a Reagan conservative and not a libertarian, which is a philosphoy his neohew espouses, but Reagan himself said a few times that libertarianism is at the heart of conservatism. Just goes to show how painfully clueless Santorum is. His nephew is head and shoulders more intelligent then him in this respect.