To be fair and accurate, Santorum did not compare himself to Reagan, he just brought up the “evil empire” speech that freaked the media out in 1983. Read Santorum’s statement; he does not imply that he’s the second coming of Ronaldus Magnus.
I am a bit perplexed by the establishment’s apoplectic response to an old Santorum speech. The talking heads on the right don’t really seem to get that people who believe in things understand what Santorum was saying. He used archaic language, but his assertion that good and evil exist shouldn’t be controversial. It is, because we’ve moved so far from traditional morality, but it shouldn’t be. If the strict Catholicism of Rick Santorum makes you uncomfortable, read some C.S. Lewis, who was known to be quite the rational intellect in his day.
This “controversy” is stupid and manufactured. People don’t like the concept of good and evil because they don’t like behaving themselves. I don’t like it, I don’t always behave myself, and I feel bad about it later — but that doesn’t change the fact that right is right and wrong is wrong and there’s no amount of wishing on my part that will change that.
And, just for the record, I was talking about Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin well before Ben Shapiro wrote his piece on it. I just don’t know the secret handshake.
To Catholics, Satan is not archaic word or concept, and I would very much expect him to say what he did at a rather seriously overt Catholic university like Ave Maria–so serious that it was constructed on never-developed land in Florida, with a view towards constructing a devout Catholic town around it. And maybe a few Domino’s outlets. Even though he was out of politics for a couple of years at the time of his speech, I might expect him to use the phrase “God Bless America” as well. Or have a cross of ashes on his forehead on a day like today where we commemorate that very first day of mankind where God told Adam that he was dust and unto dust he shall return.
Of course the “controversy” is manufactued. Everything Conservatives do is “controversial” according to the Left. Nothing the Left does never is. The Left just doesn’t shit on our values as a Nation, does it? I asure you that Rick Santorum has a lot more in common with the values and beliefs of the 43 Presidents that preceeded Obama than with the current “Occupy The Whitehouse” one-termer. And if Santorum dedicated his campaign more towards the expressed goals and words of Ronald Reagan, you’d hear nothing but cheers out of me. It strikes me as odd that my fellow Republicans would not all agree on that point.