http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020205042.html

The Great Will (TGW) adopts the rhetorical guise of reportage in his extended and seemingly unapologetic press release for candidate Rick Santorum: titled ‘Rick Santorum’s appeal to the GOP base’. The obvious question for a political cynic like me presents itself as: is TGW on the payroll? Given his history with Ronald Reagan as candidate and President that is a legitimate question. But here is the piece de resistance of this relentless hagiography:

‘Santorum does not ignore economic issues, but as a relentless ethicist, he recasts those as moral issues: "What is European socialism but modern-day monarchy that 'takes care' of the people?" He is, of course, correct that America's debt crisis is, at bottom, symptomatic of a failure of self-control, a fundamental moral failing.’

TGW, as one of the most prominent of America’s Fake Political Moralists, he cannot resist the political opportunity to lecture his vast audience on their ‘fallen state’, his perennial subject. Yet we cannot resist  pointing at the many failings of Political Conservatism and its economic corollary ‘Free Market Economics’ as demonstrably vacuous, in terms of anything but a corrupt, self- promoting burlesque of  the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer.