Rick Santorum is a Menace to Individual Liberty (and Is Not a Libertarian)
I think Republicans should shore up their coalition by offering libertarian reasons for social-conservative positions.[...]
[The Children's Defense Fund's] approach to helping children and families is for the government to take over the economic function of the family. Hardly a libertarian organization. If they don't like Rick Santorum, that's probably a good sign for advocates of minimum government and fiscal restraint.
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[The 13 issues they listed as important for 2005 supported by Family Research Council] are much more closely attuned to libertarian sensibilities than anything the Children’s Defense Fund has offered, or is ever likely to offer.
Rick Santorum and other social conservatives may not be every conservative’s cup of tea. Some of his issues and rhetoric may make you uncomfortable. Personally, I can’t think of any politician who doesn’t give me the heebie-jeebies some of the time. But fiscal conservatives and libertarians, can vote for Rick Santorum with a clean conscience.
-Jennifer Roback Morse, "Libertarians for Santorum" in National Review
A clean conscience? Really? Rick Santorum: "I don't believe that people should be empowered to do what pleases them the most."
"[The liberals'] entire agenda is I should be able to do whatever I want to do as long as no one gets hurt."
"We hear this on abortion: I should be able to do with my body whatever I want to do as long as I'm not hurt - or I should be able to take drugs, and do whatever I want to do as long as, as long as I - I should be able to, ah, you know, whatever in particular in the area of sexual freedom, and and personal issues, this is the mantra of the left, which is: I have a right to do what I want to do. And that is not the kind of freedom that our founders envisioned, it is not the kind of freedom that makes up a society that is, that is uh, devoted, as the subtitle of the book says, to the common good."
Nitebeat: "But isn't the notion of working for the common good - if uh, a liberal were talking about people should spend more time working for the common good, wouldn't they be accused of being kind of a little pink, a little socialistic?"
Santorum: "No, not at all."
Watch the rest of the video for this guy's remarks on the pursuit of happiness. I don't know what to call someone who'd vote for this guy, but "libertarian" isn't one of them.