Foster Friess: the Man Atop the Horse bankrolling Rick Santorum
Christian billionaire funding Santorum's campaign presents himself as a preserver of traditional 'founding father' values...
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When Rick Santorum gave his victory speech following Tuesday's unexpected triumphs in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, he was flanked by his wife Karen – and by Foster Friess, a Christian billionaire who has been the prime bankroller of his resurgent campaign.
Friess, a 71-year-old mutual fund manager, presents himself as a preserver of traditional "founding father" values.
The small-government, anti-tax investment manager from Wyoming –Man Atop the Horse, as he is called on the website promoting his views and picturing him, saddled up, in a rainslicker against a mountain landscape – set up the Red, White and Blue Super Pac (political action committee) which has so far spent $2.2m (£1.4m) in promoting Santorum's cause, according to the Centre for Responsive Politics
One of Foster's favourite causes is to "help peaceful Muslims transcend the seventh-century ideology of coercion, intimidation, and violence that threatens us and them" according to Man Atop the Horse.
"This is the most threatening movement in the world today," Friess says on the website. "In fact, due to the growing numbers of teenage and pre-adolescent Muslims that are being recruited and trained in its anti-American ideology on a daily and weekly basis, this threat to our western way of life is more powerful than nazism or even communism ever was in the 1900s."
