Michelle Malkin: ‘Santorum for President’

January 30, 2012
THE BLAZE

In an article titled “Rick Santorum for President,” conservative authoress Michelle Malkin throws her support behind the former Pennsylvania senator.


Malkin argues that, of the remaining GOP candidates, Rick Santorum is the most conservative and she backs up her claim by citing his political record. However, lest she be written off as a shameless Santorum shill, she also points out that — like the other GOP candidates — he has his fair share of shortcomings.

Malkin begins by highlighting Santorum’s conservative credentials: his opposition to TARP, the fact that he didn’t “cave when Chicken Littles in Washington invoked a manufactured crisis in 2008,” that he is not among the GOP nominees (i.e. Romney and Gingrich) who supported the bailouts and he didn’t have to “obfuscate or rationalize his position then or now, like Rick Perry and Herman Cain did.”

Furthermore, Santorum “strongly opposed the auto bailout,” the Freddie and Fannie bailout, the “porkulus” bills, and he “clearly and forcefully” opposed individual health care mandates.

He also voted against cap and trade in 2003, voted “Yes” to drilling in ANWR, and, unlike some GOP candidates, he never “dabbled with eco-radicals like John Holdren, Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi,” as Malkin puts it.

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