Santorum and the Media

I just finished watching NBC's Meet the Press and an Rick Santorum interview by Steve Gregory.  The questions from Gregory were typical liberal blather about women's health, contraception, gay marriage, etc.  I thought Santorum did a good job deflecting the biased questions and talking more about the broader aspects of his political positions.  It is obvious that Santorum is a conservative that liberals love the hate because of his stances on abortion and gay marriage.

It is becoming obvious to me that a Romney-Santorum ticket would be the best pairing for the GOP.  I expect Hilary Clinton to replace Joe Biden as the democratic VP candidate.  In states like California, a Romney-Sanotrum ticket has a snowball chance in hell in winning the state and I have my doubts about the swing states although we still have 9 months to go and the economy will be the determinant.  

At this point, any GOP ticket is preferable to the socialist Obama.  However, even if a Romney ticket wins we will still be stuck with a big government mentality.  Probably more socially conservative than Obama for sure but I have my doubts based upon Romney's track record as governor whether he would tackle the downsizing of the gargantuan federal government.  I do not think he will abolish Obamacare for instance but would only tinker with it to make it more palatable to conservatives.

The GOP never roles back government programs instituted by previous presidents.  It only maintains the status quo and after a few years even takes credit for them.  Why even waste time going through the examples?

We will still be saddled with the global objectives of the national security state.  I am traveling this weekend and read the Wall Street Journal on the plane.  Of particular note was a review of a new book by Robert Kagan, "Why the World Needs America."  Here is the synopsis:

Foreign-policy pundits increasingly argue that democracy and free 

markets could thrive without U.S. predominance. 

If this sounds too good to be true, writes Robert Kagan, that's because it is.

Nope, nothing will change in the foreign policy realm.  The article states that the author Kagan is a special adviser to Hilary Clinton and is also the foreign policy adviser for Mitt Romney.

The neoconservatives have captured the citadel.