Comments on: Rule of Thumb: If it Makes Santorum Sick, it’s Probably Good for Liberty

By: Stephen Littau

Stephen Littau — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:07:19 +0000

@ Let”s Be Free

http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2012/01/02/rick-santorum-the-anti-libertarian/

[Libertarians] 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.

That’s Rick Santorum. He has made other similar statements about how he doesn’t like the libertarian elements in the GOP. As Brian Lehman writes here, the problem with Rick Santorum is not his faith. Ron Paul is also a man of faith and I support him. The difference is Paul promotes the notion that people should be left alone (provided they are not infringing on the rights of others) and Rick Santorum does not. I hardly think this is a paranoid statement.

Full disclosure: yes, I am an atheist and I make no apologies for that.

By: Let's Be Free

Let's Be Free — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:22:34 +0000

This is a paranoid post. This strain of libertarianism that hates religious is ugly and destructive. Santorum has a record going back decades of using but not imposing his religious beliefs on anyone. He is a decent, moral, honest, god-fearing fellow and if those are disqualifying traits then there is something wrong with the disqualifier, not the candidate. As for saying religion makes more of a difference to Santorum vs. Romney come on — why do you think the Mariott’s are yielding a small fortune to Romney’s super pacs if it isn’t in the name of their shared religion? Even though I’m not much religious myself, in my day to day life my dealings with deeply religious people have been almost uniformly more positive than my dealings with self-centered atheists. That’s the way it is.

By: Brad Warbiany

Brad Warbiany — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:52:24 +0000

Normally I don’t like going after politicians for their religion. While Mitt Romney is a Mormon, I don’t see much in his political or business history that suggests it makes a whit of difference to how he would govern.

I can’t say the same for Santorum.