I have a suggestion for Rick Santorum that I believe could get the Tea Party, the Silent Majority, Reagan Democrats, Libertarians, and even a few Republicans excited about the campaign. I think it would not only guarantee Santorum the GOP nomination, but the election as well.
Sometime before Super Tuesday on March 6 Rick should announce that at noon Eastern time on Good Friday (April 2) he will surrender himself to federal authorities on the steps of the Supreme Court. As part of the announcement he will encourage his GOP opponents and all Americans to similarly appear on Good Friday at the nearest federal courthouse and surrender themselves at the same time. (It’s a holiday and lots of people will be off work.) Rick—and everyone who surrenders—will then provide a written confession that he has conspired to incite the general public to civil disobedience, i.e., by vowing to disobey federal law by refusing to participate with any government mandate that violates their religious and/or Constitutional freedoms.
Santorum’s staff should be able to come up with a suitably pointed confession and vow. Distributing it in advance proves that it really is a conspiracy, right?
The publicity in the weeks running up to Good Friday would be pervasive with all the pundits wondering how many people will show up and what the Feds and Obama will do. Will he arrest everyone who promises to ignore the law? Probably not, but if anyone does get arrested I suppose we could then petition Pontius Obama to pardon them. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
I suspect the turnout would be overwhelming, nationwide, and astonishingly peaceful! Even the mainstream media wouldn’t be able to ignore it. Rick Santorum will get a hero’s welcome everywhere he goes for weeks, before and after!
You’ve said yourself that the candidates need to do more to educate the public to the real issues facing us. I think this would do so dramatically.
Santorum better hurry, though. If Newt Gingrich gets wind of this he’ll steal the idea!
--Cliff
