Rick Santorum: Which team are you on?

Rick Santorum gave us perhaps the most important, honest look into his political soul during the last debate and I'm shocked that so little has been said about it by the pundits in the press. He said (approximately) "It was absolutely against my principles, but I voted for it anyway. Sometimes you just have to take one for the team."

Well doesn't that just tell all?! The most conservative man in America, the self-described, one true blue conservative is actually a man of expedient, mercurial, situational principle. As Ron Paul put it, a "go along to get along" Washington insider; or more succinctly, "a fake." And amazingly, Santorum inadvertently admitted it!

This is the very "inside the beltway" mentality so-called tea-party conservatives decry, yet they're lining up behind Ricky nonetheless. What gives?

As another of the most conservative men in America, I'm a little fed up with so-called hard core conservatives--some with big names, like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck--playing like Rick Santorum is God's own gift to conservative America, and turning Mitt Romney into "Obama Light."

I'm not sure why, but they're selling this lightweight 40-something attorney and career politician as having the same executive gravitas--particularly on financial matters--as the 65-year old entrepreneurial titan, founder and CEO of Bain Capital, Olympic "savior," and former Chief Executive of Massachusetts.

Listen, I'll give Santorum credit standing up for traditional American moral and spiritual values. And for taking a lot of fair and unfair criticism for it. Romney shares most, if not all of those values, but he doesn't wear them on his shirt sleeve and won't use the power his office to force them on anyone. He simply lives them and encourages others through his example. He WILL restore moral leadership to America, I believe.

But this election isn't about social values. It's about America's economic survival. It's about cutting the federal government down to size. Reducing unnecessary expense, getting more Americans off the dole and into good paying jobs. I don't know about you, but I'll put my two bits on the private sector business chieftain over an untested go-along to get-along politician occupying his very first executive  office. Seems to me we just made that mistake 3 years ago. Now that's rational!