Santorum’s Fear: Militant Socialists

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Musing on what might be America’s biggest and most under-appreciated threat, Rick Santorum came up with “militant socialists.”

“I’m concerned about the spread of socialism,” the former PA Senator said, referencing Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. He also provided perhaps the most obscure foreign policy criticism of the evening, criticizing the Obama administration for having sided with the ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya over his usurper, Roberto Micheletti. Chavez, as did almost every other Latin American state and most of the UN General Assembly, backed Zelaya.

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