Courage of Conviction

I just finished watching Sen. Santorum on Fox 43’s Sunday Spotlight.  Fox 43 covers Central PA and is based out of Harrisburg.  Casey declined the invitation to show up.  Here are my thoughts:

Santorum did very well, as he usually does in those type of settings.  I was glad to see the majority of the focus of the interview relating to national issues that mostly had to do with national security.  Isn’t that ultimately the most important issue there is when it comes down to it. 

I won’t go through ever single issue presented, you’ll get the same answers that have been presented elsewhere, no need to rehash.  But what I observed was something different - kind of the “big-picture” perspective.  In Mr. Casey, you have someone who doesn’t have a clue about what to do when it comes to national security. In this, he is very Clintonian in approach.  Here is someone who doesn’t give the voters a clue about what he would do about issues that matters. Why? The only conclusion I have come up with is that it is hard to have a vision when you are always job-shopping, as Mr. Casey is prone to do.  One day it’s Auditor General, the next its Treasurer, the next it’s Governor, the next it’s Senator.  What job is he going to apply for next?  When you haven’t got a clue about what you want to do when you grow up, it’s kind of hard to present a vision for what you’ll do in the next job you get. 

Mr. Santorum on the other hand made it clear that he knows what needs to be done.  He related immigration, oil independence, the war in Iraq and Afghanstan, etc. back to our national security.  Here is a man with a vision for our future.  He sees how the dots connects.  This, I believe, is the biggest difference between Mr. Casey and Sen. Santorum - one candidate who is job searching and doesn’t understand the importance of national security and the other candidate who knows what he wants to do, why he has to do it, and sees national security as a defining issue, not just for this race, but for so much more.

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