Core Value of Santorum: "The Pursuit of Happiness Is Harming America." He Must be Stopped!

I always thought that the much quoted line in the Declaration of Independence, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights such as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" actually meant the same thing to everyone who read it.

I always thought "Liberty and the pursuit of happiness" meant that you, as an individual, were free to do anything that you wanted as long as you didn't infringe on the rights of others to do the same thing. My understanding is that we formed a government in order to protect those individual rights for us.

But it's shocking to find out that some "conservatives" have a different understanding. Here's what a Republican candidate for president has to say on the topic.

"The pursuit of happiness and personal pleasure is harming America."

"One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right.

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 regulations low, that we shouldn't get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn't get involved in cultural issues.

That is not how traditional conservatives view the world.

There is no such society that I am aware of, where we've had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture."

This is what Rick Santorum actually said on multiple occasions. He said it several years ago and he has said it very recently. It seems to be his core belief.

(Continue reading and watch the videos of Santorum making these outrageous statements.)
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