Argumentet imod McCain
Rick Santorum har en kronik i Philadelphia Inquirer om John McCain som republikansk præsident. Et par uddrag:
He has opposed pro-growth tax cuts and supported limits on political speech. He has pushed amnesty when it came to illegal immigration and half-measures when it came to interrogating terrorists. He wants to close Guantanamo and allow the reimportation of prescription drugs into the United States. Not only does he part company with conservatives on these and other issues – climate change, drilling for oil in the Alaskan hinterland, federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, international criminal courts, gun-show background checks – he invariably adopts the rhetoric of the left and stridently leads the opposition.
Many of us want a leader who believes in his core that this race is a fight for the soul of America, her Judeo-Christian tradition, her sovereignty, her courage to defeat not appease or surrender to her enemies, her belief in capitalism and limited government, and her commitment to equality of opportunity, not result. We want a leader who’s not interested in moving the country in the same direction as Clinton and Obama, only slower.
Santorum udtrykker forholdsvis godt hvorfor mange republikanere ikke er helt trygge ved McCain.
