Social Conservative Rick Santorum showing a libertarian streak?

From Eric Dondero:

Speaking at a Lincoln/Reagan Day dinner in New Hampshire, during Q&A former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum let loose three zingers with particular libertarian zeal.

From Politico:

On Radical Islam

“Jihadism is evil and we need to say what it is...”

“We need to define it and say what it is. And it is evil. Sharia law is incompatible with American jurisprudence and our Constitution.”

On the Welfare State

"Close your eyes, like you’re listening to a drug dealer outside a schoolyard,” he said. “They see entitlements as a way to make you dependent, weaker, less of a person than you are, drugging you into submission to a government who promises a high to take care of you.”

On Compulsory Education

“Just call them what they are. Public schools? That’s a nice way of putting it. These are government run schools,”

“They fund it more,” he said of Democrats. “Why? Because it brings more children into their domain. It brings more children out of the household … Their agenda is to socialize your children with the thinking they want in those children’s minds.”

Santorum has a presidential exploratory committee, and has been campaigning in both Iowa and New Hampshire.

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