McCain views on social issues

Rick Santorum has known John McCain for almost two decades and he writes this article after attending the Council for National Policy meeting, which took place in New Orleans, to show that McCain must make adjustments to change previous standards not just because of different politics, but from new facts. Santorum says that McCain is stubborn and everything he does involves honor and integrity. McCain wanted this speech to be a chance to “not just unite, but reignite the base." But Santorum uses metaphor when he talks about how the crowd’s thoughts of McCain’s speech. He said McCain’s speech was “hard to ignite anything with cold water and no fire.” McCain’s speech in New Orleans addressed spending taxes and national security, but when asked about social issues, he failed to connect to the people who care about why you vote instead of how you vote. One thing that works well in Santorum’s argument is that he gives examples either from McCain’s speech or from personal experience with McCain. One thing that does not work well in Santorum’s argument is that he jumps from one topic to another topic and one does not know where he is leading to next. This causes the reader to feel slightly lost and confused while reading this article. Santorum commits the logical fallacy of hasty generalizations when he generalizes that all conservatives feel the same way on McCain’s issues, but in reality there are many different degrees at which a conservative could agree. One could agree with him on one issue, but then not agree on another issue. He does not always do this because at the beginning of his article he covers himself by saying that a vast majority of conservatives, instead of just saying all conservatives he eliminates this logical fallacy.