Rick Santorum Wants to Fight Libertarian Influence in the Republican Party

Santorum would attack all of the Founders if they were running today.

He is an Italian communist period. A flim flam lobbyist period.

a superchristian reincarnated George W. Bush.

Santorum to Everyone:

“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.”

Everyone to Santorum:

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. - Ron Paul

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end. – Lord Acton

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. – William Allen White

The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time. – Justice George Sutherland

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. – Harry Browne

I fear for our nation. Nearly half of our people receive some kind of government subsidy. We have grown weak from too much affluence and too little adversity. I fear that soon we will not be able to defend our country from our sure and certain enemies. We have debased our currency to the point that even the most loyal citizen no longer trusts it. – A Roman Senator in A.D. 63

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial … the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. – Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. – Plato circa 400 B.C

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. - Ron Paul

Patrick Henry did not say, "Give me absolute safety or give me death." – John Stossel, ABC News journalist

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom. – Senator Barry Goldwater

For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent. – Jacob Hornberger

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. – John Stuart Mill

It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning. – Ben Moreell

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition that he may abuse it. – Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Address, First Protectorate Parliament, 1654

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment. – Henry Steele Commager

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. – Robert H. Jackson

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused. – Lord George Lyttleton (1709-1773)

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited. – Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), Social Statics, 1850

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time. – Friedrich von Hayek

Democracy is not a system of liberty, but a form of tyranny: the tyranny of the majority. – Robert Garmong

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. – US House Congressional Resolution 48 "A Republic; not a Democracy", sponsored by Ron Paul, 3/6/01.

There IS no Libertarian argument for Rick Santorum.

In fact the question itself is retarded.

Santorum is actually the most anti-Libertarian running on the republican side.

Only if Libertarians support Big-Government, Neo-Con, government-meddling-in-our-social-lives ideals could you make a case for Rick Santorum as their choice.

And can you believe the CATO Institute would have us believe that Santorum is the best candidate for libertarians.

Yeah, you read that right!

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14091

http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/libertarians-sa...

Give CATO and John Samples a piece of your mind.

Why do people treat it like a dirty word?

Hell George Washington WARNED AGAINST political parties like Republican and Democrat.

I wonder why?

Maybe because America's best interests would be forced to take a back seat to party loyalties and power cells?

Really we have one "Big Government" Party with two divisions.

The Liberal "Welfare" division and the Conservative "Warfare" division.
Both have brought America to the brink of disaster.

We need to live by our Founding Principles or we will perish as a free and prosperous nation.

We ARE PERISHING!