Like vampires fleeing a cross, the secular world shudders and trembles at the sight of Rick Santorum delivering a speech about good and evil at Ave Maria University in Florida in 2008.
Santorum’s statement came 25 years after another much-maligned social conservative, Ronald Reagan, delivered a similarly fiery but much-needed statement in Florida in 1983.As I digested the speech, I was struck at how so many of Santorum’s themes and words — which were right on the money — echoed those expressed in Ronald Reagan’s historic Evil Empire speech. …
Santorum’s statement came 25 years after another much-maligned social conservative, Ronald Reagan, delivered a similarly fiery but much-needed statement in Florida in 1983.As I digested the speech, I was struck at how so many of Santorum’s themes and words — which were right on the money — echoed those expressed in Ronald Reagan’s historic Evil Empire speech. …
Like Reagan, he fears that the “great political conflict” at work in America “is not a political war at all, or a cultural war — it is a spiritual war.”
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