Don't worry about Santorum. Ron Paul will save us. He is going to eliminate all taxes and all restrictions on big business, because we all know that trickle-down economics works like gangbusters. That is why Apple pays Chinese people two cents per 22-hour day to build Iphones, leading to no manufacturing jobs in the United States, destroying consumption which in turn eats through more jobs -- no one to go to restaurants, buy big-screen TVs, pay for overpriced houses, etc.
Ron Paul is the biggest snake-oil salesman of them ALL. Even Obama makes more sense than this con artist. What he does is play on a primary hatred of the Fed, but it should be clear to anyone that America's ilusory wealth is only based on our manipulations of other nations through this same Fed. Basically the Fed pumped money into our system, giving the illusion of prosperity and endless growth. This led to the rest of the world thinking America was a superpower and accepting the dollar ( at gunpoint basically ) as fiat money, and the rest is infamous history, Europe is going to go down in flames along with us. We're all in debt to our eyeballs, crooked and overextended to the point of obscenity.
The neo-cons sell trickle-down economics and globalism, but Ron Paul is even more ludicrous when he says he's going to abolish the Fed. If this were done, America would collapse overnight. What is keeping us going, though on a shoestring, are our various manipulations of other nations through our status as the hub of globalism and of the democratic way of life. End the Fed, you end any pretense of America being somehow necessary to anyone else; and they would let us drop and burn. They are going to do that anyway but the process would only be accelerated DRASTICALLY by ending the Fed. You can't just push a button on a clock and go back to 1776 in this way, even if that were desirable, which it's not ( I prefer 1356 ).
The fact that we have fiat money and have convinced the world we are essential and necessary is the only reason this nation isn't in smoking ruins like Greece right now. Ron Paul plays on a kind of rustic isolationism and misguided paranoid patriotism that ignores the political reality of the time. He is the same order of figure as Alex Jones, both having failed to assess the real nature of the beast -- that is, that the beast is us.