On Wednesday, Rick Santorum became the latest Republican candidate to promise to vote for Ron Paul in a general election should it come to it next year. Newt Gingrich is on record saying he couldn’t support Paul in a general election, Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he could.
Asked to explain his promise to support Paul if he somehow gets the Republican nomination, Santorum explained that a President Obama unburdened by the threat of a future election would be basically the same as Ron Paul in the White House anyway.
“A second term with Barack Obama, I’m not sure would look that different than a Ron Paul administration when it comes to national security,” Santorum told CNN.
He explained:
“It’s pretty clear from President Obama’s track record, he wants to disengage the world, turn over that job of international security to the United Nations, which is not where I want to go.”
