Rick Santorum: Crusader for Freedom

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 5:17PM ET / Published Mar. 21, 2012 12:22PM ET

Make no mistake about it, Rick Santorum is fighting for freedom. Not freedom of choice, freedom to marry whomever you want, freedom from the stresses of unemployment, or even the freedom to watch porn, but freedom nonetheless. Today his campaign sent out an email warning that "our government every day and in every way is ordering us around, trampling our freedoms, curtailing our religious liberty and building a dependency on big government." Under the subject "When Men Were Free," the email concludes with a reference to a Ronald Reagan speech from the 1960s: "Let us take up this fight together with renewed vigor, so that future generations do not say about America, 'When men were free.'"

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