Former Pennsylvania Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed on Tuesday that Ohio’s decision to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion in the state constitution was proof that “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”
During an appearance on Newsmax, Santorum said, “Remember these elections, off-year elections, odd number elections are very low turnout elections. They are base elections and the Democrats have traditionally, number one, outspent us, not just on odd number year elections, but generally speaking.”
He continued:
Number two, their base is more ginned up to go out and vote generally than Republicans. We’ve seen this now for the last several years, and so a base election, they — Democrats — outspend, and you put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote. It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio. I don’t know what they were thinking, but um, that’s why I thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to run a country.
More than 55% of Ohio voters voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution on Tuesday. A majority also voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana.
Newsmax host and marijuana critic Greg Kelly reacted to the news on his show with a sigh and said, “Yikes – the marijuana thing, we have just unthinkingly as a country embraced that.”
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