Rick Santorum says that the "liberal" view of freedom is "not the kind of freedom our founders envisioned." Elaborating, he says "It is an entire culture that focus (sic) on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness and personal pleasure. And it is harming America."

Actually, Rick, here's what those wacky founders wrote in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence:

Not only does Rick have the audacity to claim that he knows what sort of freedom the founders envisioned, he believes that one of the three "unalienable Rights" they chose to enumerate is harming our country. Here's the video:

Oh, and of course he blames our country's divorce rate on "the left." Even though the divorce rate in America is actually highest in the "Bible Belt"--hardly a bastion of liberalism.

This is a sitting United States Senator arguing that our founders were wrong in their belief that we are all entitled to the "pursuit of happiness." In the same breath, he says he knows what those same founders envisioned for this country.

Honestly, we wish that there was something funny about this. There isn't.

Tags:Santorum, Rick, Politics