Rick Santorum returned to the radio show this morning to discuss a comment where he said he didn't have a libertarian view of the Constitution, but he ended up dropping a bigger bombshell - the results from Iowa may have been inaccurate and could be changing.
As the radio guys joked about Perry and Santorum dropping out to support Newt Gingrich, something Newt has been calling for, Santorum revealed that the results from Iowa may be changing.
"I can't believe the media's coming, like, after this that Gingrich is the conservative option against Romney when you clearly are. You won basically in Iowa," Stu said.
"Yeah, we're going to hear about that in the next 24 hours or so and we're feeling very optimistic that the numbers are changing there and this could be a very different election coming into Saturday."
The guys were confused - was he talking about polls in South Carolina?
"In Iowa. The numbers are changing. That's all I can say," Santorum said.
"The bottom line is the way the process works is that the precincts phone in their results at a regional call center. There were four of them in the state. They phone in the results and those results are key stroked into an electronic database. Well, of course, when they phone in 1800 of these precincts, guess what happens sometimes. They misstroke a key. They put the wrong number in. And there were several occurrences of that. And in an eight‑vote differential, the idea that the vote can't change was frankly inaccurate on the part of the state chairman and inaccurate on the part of the Republican Party of Iowa. They should have said that we still have to certify it, which they are planning to do either today or tomorrow, and there very well was an eight‑vote difference. There very well could be some technical errors in the way that these numbers were entered and it could change the result," he further explained.
"That really does you an injustice. If it comes out all this time later that you won, nobody's really paying attention to that anymorend we're deep into South Carolina," Pat said.
As for his views on the Constitution and how they different from Ron Paul?
"Today we think of happiness as enjoyment and pleasure and doing whatever makes you feel good. At the time of our founders, the dictionary definition of happiness was to do the morally right thing. So the freedom was not to do ‑‑ not to be free to do whatever you wanted to do. Our founders knew that that would lead to, in fact, not freedom, that would lead to libertinism and lead to chaos, would lead to the French Revolution. But the reason ‑‑ the freedom to do what you ought to do, what you are properly ordered to do as a ‑‑ as someone living a good, decent and ordered life. And so that's the differentiation that I believe Ron Paul and I have with respect to what liberty is. His liberty is if you want prostitution, fine. If you want to use drugs, fine. As long as you're not hurting anybody else, do whatever you want to do, do what makes you feel good. But that's not how our country was founded. That's not the moral foundation of our country. And our country is simply not just a collection of freedoms. There is a moral foundation which is declared in the Declaration of Independence with God‑given rights upon which this country was founded and upon which this country succeeded," Santorum said.