Rick Santorum, Far Right Republicans, and Le Penn

So I earlier compared Rick Santorum to Jean Marie LePenn (See Link), a far-right French politician.  This comparison was based on outrageous, far right sound bites, like LePenn, as opposed to substantive discourse.  Santoroum's "out there" comments dominated the news even if his voting potential did not.  Some of the far-right even suggested that a vote for Romney was the same as a vote for Obama.

So, why his post?  Marine LePenn, daughter of Jean Marie LePenn, obtained nearly 20% of the French vote while Sarkozy, the current President, got about 27%.  He will face a runoff against Francois Hollande, a Socialist candidate.  The French far right party, who will not be in the runoff election, is advocating abstaining from the general runoff election!  That is so much like Rick Santorum and his supporters!

I actually believe that Rick Santorum wanted to win, not trash the Republican Party.  In point of fact, his continuing in the Republican primaries enabled those who, like Marine LePenn’s supporters, would abstain rather than vote for a “true conservative”.  This argues that all of us need to reject those who are, like LePenn’s supporters (and Santorum’s) unwilling to compromise.  If you cannot compromise, you enable the far left and the far right in our country.  The majority of people are someplace in the center.  I personally believe that most are center right but center left works as well.  We need to flush the far right and the far left from our institutions.

Only a far right view and a total disregard of the consequences kept Rick Santorum in the race for President after mid-February.  He needs to be flushed from consideration in 2016 and beyond, regardless of the outcome of this year’s election.