Rick Santorum was on Steve Malzberg’s radio program on Newsmax yesterday where he slammed the Obama administration’s response to the Ebola outbreak, saying that it perfectly demonstrates why conservatives do not trust the government or experts while also insisting that it is just the latest example of President Obama failing to protect America from global threats.
“We are seeing epic mistrust of government for a variety of reasons,” Santorum said. “But now we’re seeing incompetence, in my opinion, on display.” Insisting that people who know nothing about fighting or containing Ebola are demonstrating more common sense than the so-called experts when it comes to dealing with the virus, Santorum said that this is exactly why conservatives must fight against liberal efforts to turn everything over to the government and the experts.
“We are now seeing another case, whether it was the [Obamacare] website or now the CDC,” he said, “we cannot trust these experts who portray themselves as the people that we should be bowing to in this situation and letting them decide what we do.”
Saying that he is “very concerned that we don’t have a handle on this,” Santorum said that President Obama is “not protecting America, he’s not doing what is right for America” and that “this is a pattern.”
“The president is not protecting America when it comes to fighting against ISIS, fighting against radical Islam,” he said. “He has got a pattern of behavior when it comes to the international community of putting them before America and it is not a good thing”:
