The great libertarian dream of entering the GOP in a Trojan horse Rand Paul built by hand is over. Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee are on to us and they are putting their gouty feet down. “Look, the Republican Party isn’t going to change,” former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) tells Politico. “If we do change, we’ll be the Whig Party….We’re not the Libertarian Party, we’re the Republican Party.”

Both Santorum and Huckabee (who is far less interesting in Politico’s piece, aside from a joke about McCain and Romney failing to “just light ’em up at the National Right to Life Convention”) seem to think the real reason the GOP lost two presidential elections in a row is because its candidates did not talk enough about the horrors of abortion and men kissing each other on the mouth. Sayeth Santorum: “If we had candidates in the last two presidential elections who weren’t ashamed of the positions they had on these issues and played offense, instead of listening to the same people who now want to abandon the issues, we would’ve been successful.”

http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/01/rick-santorum-were-not-the-libertarian-p