In a speech rife with 2016 overtones, Rick Santorum highlighted how he had anticipated many of the culture battles facing the country today, such as the same-sex-marriage debate and the Hobby Lobby case, while in the Senate. Today, Americans’ individual and religious liberties are being compromised in ways that he warned about, he said.
The former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 president candidate contrasted his foresight to those within his own party that failed to understand the issues or are unwilling to take them on.
“It’s easy to see where we are going if you know what the fight is,” he said from at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. “That’s why it’s important to elect leaders and to have leaders within our movement — which we frankly do not have many of, particularly in the Republican establishment – to understand the existent struggle that is in America today.”
Rather than go on the offense on social and cultural issues to appeal to voters, Republicans have been much too defensive, he said.
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