This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues.
That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
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Judge Napolitano (sp?) has his head firmly up Ron Paul, AKA Nutty Uncle, AKA Mr. Putsearmarksinbillsthatwillpassbuthewillvoteagainstanways.
The clip is edited and does not have everything he said between criticisms of "Libertarianish right" and the paragraph quoted. For all we know, he could be talking about the Libertarians we all know and love like a mentally deficient brother... the atheist ones that think legalized heroin will be fine and that God is for stupid people.
He is right about traditional conservatism. In the years before the 1890s, conservatives deferred to the government on control issues, liberals fought control, and populists deferred to the people. Progressives perverted the original meaning of liberal.
In any case, reading what he's said doesn't concern me as much as the real evidence that Gingromney are Greenpeace gun-haters and Ron Paul is a nutter who will kill the Fed, we'll all celebrate, and then he'll kill us all by abandoning all sane foreign policy.
At this point, I'm not happy with ANY of them, you cover reasons nicely.
"None of the above" would be a better choice, I think, except I don't know who to stand up instead.
I also have to gripe about this "Kilkenny Cats" approach to selecting the Republican candidate. Much too much fratricidal savagery. And another thing: by emphasizing policies and programs, and "what they would do about situation X", they are conceding the Leftist thesis that everything has to come from government rather than from private sector effort. Essentially they are saying "we could be Barak Obama except better". That didn't work for Wendell Wilkie, either.
We really need the Lincoln -Douglas Debates, debating first principles, not deck chair arrangement.
Can anyone say "Straw Man"?
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