Thursday, February 3, 2011

Republicans in 2012, ctd.

George Will features Rick Santorum:
Santorum appears four to six times a week on the Fox News and Fox Business channels, which are watched - particularly the former - by much of the Republican nominating electorate. And for three hours every Friday he hosts William Bennett's nationally syndicated radio program, which also has a mostly conservative audience.
Santorum does not ignore economic issues, but as a relentless ethicist, he recasts those as moral issues: "What is European socialism but modern-day monarchy that 'takes care' of the people?" He is, of course, correct that America's debt crisis is, at bottom, symptomatic of a failure of self-control, a fundamental moral failing.
Is there going to be a candidate who doesn't have a show on Fox News, and will said candidate have a prayer?  I don't see a candidate who tells the American people that we are in this situation because it is their fault making a bunch of headway, no matter how much truth there is to it.  The banks easily hold much blame, have gotten off extremely easily and are back to their thieving ways.  No matter how much column space Will wastes on him, I think Rick Santorum is the Sam Brownback candidate of 2012.

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