Reason Writers on One of the Last Freedom Watches: Matt Welch Talks to the Judge About Rick Santorum's Anti-Libertarianism

Reason Staff | 2.15.2012 8:34 AM

On Friday, Feb. 10, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch went on the penultimate episode of Judge Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch program to discuss how Rick Santorum is both the most explicit anti-libertarian running in the GOP presidential race, and the embodiment of a significant strain within modern Republicanism. Watch below:

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Ron, Paul 13 years ago

Vote Ron, Paul 2012, muthafuckaz!!!!!
1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  Yeah, like I'm going to trust a guy with 2 first names to tell me who to vote for.
  1. Ron, Paul 13 years ago
    
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  1. Sparky 13 years ago
    
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    1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
      
      I'm an incisor man myself. Cost me my first marriage.
Ric Santorum 13 years ago

SANTORUM!
db 13 years ago

Why is Freedom Watch ending? Seems like we would need such a program more than ever. Of course, I don't watch it so maybe ratings has something to do with it.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  He should have sexed it up with a bunch of cleavage and overly made up hussies, like O'Reilly does.
  1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
    
    What about that blonde professor lady?
  2. Mike M. 13 years ago
    
    He teased almost his entire show last night with a shlocky story about Kate Upton, replete with pictures of course. Say what you will about the guy, he knows how to get the viewers.
Korean Central News Agency 13 years ago

Floral Basket to DPRK Embassy by Myanmar Political Party

Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- The Union Solidarity and Development Party, Union of Myanmar sent a floral basket to the DPRK embassy in Nay Pyi Taw on the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il.

Win Maung Kyaw, executive member of the Nay Pyi Taw Regional Committee of the Party, and his party visited the DPRK embassy on Feb. 9. They laid a floral basket and bowed before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  It's like Dracula sent Wolfman flowers.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    I actually once beheld that eerie sight, when I was working in my lab late one night.
    1. Sparky 13 years ago
      
      Tell me, did you come out of it with a new dance craze?
    2. WTF 13 years ago
      
      Did you do the mash? I mean the Momster Mash?
      1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        Well, it was a meth lab, so who knows what I actually saw or did.
        
        Tim 13 years ago
        
        Heh.
    3. db 13 years ago
      
      Somewhat OT but kitschy monster related:
      
      Damn. I was going to point to Zacherley's "Eternal Polyester" but sadly there is no Zacherley on youtube or anywhere else apparently.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
        
        The internet ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Mercy Mee 13 years ago

Santorum will never be President. If he by some chance becomes the GOP nominee, Obama will be re-elected.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  Agreed: Santorum will never keep the star systems in line.
2. Brian D 13 years ago
  
  Obama will be the next president no matter who the GOP nominates. None of the current GOP candidates will be able to reclaim enough voters to counter the diehard Obama supporters.
  
  Hopefully the Congress doesn't swing back to Team Blue. Gridlock is the best I can hope for.
  1. romulus augustus 13 years ago
    
    So then it is Team Blue for the next umpteen elections??
  2. o3 13 years ago
    
    not gridlock, but a ck n balance. I usually vote for the out party's candidates for whichever chamber is most likely to change. that way they'll rat each other out. >congress & POTUS all the same party = cover-ups.
3. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
  
  America ain't ready for her first gay president, regardless of whether he's open or latent.
Rather 13 years ago

Matt, you sly bookwhore; you'd make any publisher proud 😉
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Rush 2112!
1. The Priests 13 years ago
  
  We've taken care of everything
  The words you hear, the songs you sing
  The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
  It's one for all, all for one
  We work together, common sons
  Never need to wonder how or why
Joe M 13 years ago

Three new polls out this week show Santorum leading Romney in Michigan. If Romney loses Michigan, he's in deep shit.
Sparky 13 years ago

Rick Santorum: Spreading the word of God one law at a time.
1. o3 13 years ago
  
  ahh, but which god?
  1. D?nadan 13 years ago
    
    A Butt-Witch-God?!
sarcasmic 13 years ago

Don't forget to pimp the book!
invisible furry hand 13 years ago

Welch was looking quite classy with his subdued shirt and jacket, and sophisticated tie. What happened?
Lost_in_translation 13 years ago

Brokered convention, brokered convention *chanting*
P Brooks 13 years ago

We'll always have Lou Dobbs.

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