Rick Santorum has lost only one race in his long political career, and the loss made him a better candidate. The conservative movement has not definitively won a single race for the Republican presidential nomination since 1984, yet it has been appallingly slow to recognize Santorum’s philosophical and electoral strengths. If conservatives want a winner and a champion, Rick Santorum is their man.
Far too many activists on the right, with too little reason, have believed the assertion that Santorum is some sort of big-government conservative. They base this belief almost entirely on his record of supporting spending earmarks (small potatoes compared with the savings he supported in the form of entitlement and welfare reforms) and on two Bush-era votes while he was the third-ranking senator in the Republican caucus — all of which have been blown out of proportion and removed from context.
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