So far, Rick Santorum is just not a very strong "Patriot Voice"

A weak appearance on ABC's Stephanopoulos program shows that Rick Santorum still isn't ready for the big league media pitching that he'll need  to handle with authority in the 2016 race

Rick Santorum was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and was the runner up for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2012. He is also  the author of  "American Patriots"  and the co-founder, along with his wife Karen Santorum of  "Patriot Voices,"  a so-called "grassroots and online community of Americans from across the country "  During 2012 Rick Santorum stumped for the Romney-Ryan ticket as well as for many other GOP candidates. He is expected to make another run for the presidency in 2016 as one of the recognizable "conservatives" in whatever field develops.

Santorum once used guns and gun rights to get into the U.S. Senate.   Just this week, Mr. Santorum specifically addressed President Barack Obama's anti-gun proposals.  Those are  some of the reasons that he's regarded as a  "conservative" spokesman and defender of  Americans' gun rights as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Today on the ABC "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" broadcast, when the panel discussion turned to  Obama's gun control proposals, Rick Santorum was confronted by Cokie Roberts about high capacity magazines and Jennifer Granholm about armor-piercing bullets.  Santorum tried to be evasive and talk about Hollywood, and violent movies and computer games, but the women were having none of that.  When they pressed him , he didn't have any answer that he was really comfortable giving, so he tried a disingenuous one --  he said something about some times crooks and bad guys who break into your home wear armor.  Granholm then prompted him by suggesting  that more often it's  policemen who wear armor.   Santorum still didn't properly respond.

You see, Liberal/Progressives know very well why Americans need their guns and why most Americans' guns need to be taken away  ---  it's the so-called "conservatives" who don't  ---  or don't have the courage to talk about it.

Most people defending the Second Amendment  rights of Americans ignore or are otherwise silent  about the "militia" part of the Second Amendment, and how it's all about Americans'  right to keep and bear arms to oppose armed and armored agents of any government, local, state or federal, braking down the doors of Americans at will.  Rick Santorum's  patriot voice was not exceptional in that regard this week with George Stephanopoulos, Cokie Roberts and Jennifer Granholm.