Rick Santorum: The Worst of Both Worlds

Well, amazingly, it looks like Rick Santorum may end up being the GOP nominee. I will be absolutely beside myself if this guy wins. Santorum represents everything I don't like about the Republican party. He holds radical social views, without the trade-off of fiscal conservatism. For example (from Wikipedia):

Santorum has stated that he does not believe a "right to privacy" is part of the Constitution; he has been critical of the Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which held that the Constitution guaranteed that right and overturned a law prohibiting the sale and use of contraceptives to married couples.^[138]

Another gem:
“One of the things that I will talk about that no president has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the sexual liberty idea and many in the Christian faith have said, you know contraception is OK. It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/24/gop-2012-candidates/

I really wish I was making this stuff up.

I will leave you with this (from Wikipedia, but I fact checked the second quote just to be sure):

In June 2011, Santorum said he would continue to "fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican party and the conservative movement."^[144] In an NPR interview in the summer of 2005, Santorum discussed what he called the "libertarianish right," saying "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 regulation low and 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..."^[145]

Sorry Rick, but I and many others do believe that the government should: stay out of our bedrooms, keep taxes down and regulations low. I think that the federal government has gotten plenty big enough and the last thing I want is someone like you playing Big Brother and trying to run my life for me.

As much as I hate Obama's nanny state, the proposed Santorum nanny state sounds even scarier to me (high taxes and regulation PLUS government involvement in the bedroom!)