Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Santorum and the Tea Party?

Little note re- Santorum. I struggle with the idea of Santorum as the tea party candidate. The central premise of the tea party is that government should get out of people's lives.. yet, Santorum thinks that the state should be able to intrude into the private residence of two consenting adults. That is incompatible with any notion of personal freedom vs the state. If we believe in personal freedom then that belief must be honest and genuine. Content based evaluations of when freedom is warranted and when government has overreached, serve to seriously diminish the power of the Republican pro-freedom narrative.

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