Jon Henke makes an excellent point regarding Senator Santorum’s recent remarks concerning his vision of American conservativism:
This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. 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. 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.
If it’s not individualism Senator, it’s socialism.
Of course, it brings up an interesting debate regarding what the GOP is evolving into. Are we really the conservatives of the Reagan and Goldwater era?