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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Pennsylvania Politics -- Santorum is a Burkean

Interesting article in today's WSJ. Rick Santorum and Iain Duncan Smith [a Brit MP] "coauthored" a piece on "A Conservative Vision of Social Justice" that draws heavily on the ideas of Edmund Burke. It also announces
The first international conference of social-justice conservatives will convene next week in Washington. We will be sharing experiences of domestic poverty-fighting, but we're also coming together to forge a global movement of like-minded conservatives. We will be launching a network to promote conservative responses to issues such as HIV/AIDS, world hunger and the enslavement and trafficking of human beings.
Read it here.

I wonder if Rickey has ever read Burke? There is a clear affinity between Burke's conservatism and the ideas embodied in Santorum's It Takes a Family, but people who know tell me that he was an indifferent student at best.

I seriously doubt that this sort of thing will do Santorum much good in the upcoming Senate race. He's already down by double digits and sinking fast, and he's wasting his time organizing international conservative conferences. He'd better get his mind back in the game and soon.

On the other hand, maybe he's looking toward a post-Senate career as an international spokesman for conservative causes.

Who can figure?


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