Santorum needs a good beating

Jeff Jarvis listened so you wouldn’t have to:

This whole idea of personal autonomy — I don’t think that most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. And they have this idea that people should be left alone to do what they want to do, that government should keep taxes down, keep regulation down, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, that we shouldn’t be involved in cultural issues, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world. And I think that most conservatives understand that we can’t go it alone, that there is no such society that I’m aware of where we’ve had radical individualism and it has succeeded as a culture.

He actually said that out loud?  In public?  That’s...that just wrong on so many levels that I’m a little confused on where to start.  The very foundation of this country was rugged individualism.  Our entire system is predicated...no...make that WAS predicated on it.

Ugh.  I’ve always disliked Santorum.  Anyway, in talking about where the crazy left and the extreme right meet, Jeff says:

Ah, but conservativism isn’t the thread that ties these guys — and their odd, mutated form of conservatism together: It is control. That, you see, is where these two fringes really meet: At the desire to control us, the way we live, the way we talk, the way we think. That is radical. It’s not true conservatism. It’s not true liberalism, either. It’s not true Americanism, as far as I’m concerned. Valuing the individual is American.

Couldn’t have crystallized my feelings on the matter any better than if he were in my head.  Shame on Rick Santorum.

Hat tip: Daily Pundit.

Posted by JimK at 09:03 PM on August 04, 2005
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