He’s right. If more conservatives were willing to lose a few battles to win the war for limited government, we might not have had eight years of massive spending increases and other nastiness under George W. Bush. An upcoming Cato Institute book forum might shed some light on the issue. [via Club for Growth]
… for young people who think like this:
I am a conservative. I value truly limited government, the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, free markets, civil liberties, and a humble, no-nation-building foreign policy, and I first assumed, as many still do, that the Republican Party best fit my convictions. But I’ve discovered that there’s no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties.
The GOP enacts liberal policies and today is composed of big-government sell-outs, progressive imperialists, militant Christians and far left neo-cons who have hijacked the party, Washington and the media.
Emphasis mine. And this …
Perhaps, like me, you voted for George W. Bush because you wanted to shrink government, not triple its size. Maybe you supported George W. Bush because you believed in a foreign policy of non-intervention, only to be told that we must “fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.” This is a far cry from George Washington’s warning about entangling ourselves in the affairs with other nations.
The GOP today is not conservative.Thus, true conservatives have but two options: reform our party or leave it.
Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo are the only GOP presidential hopefuls who haven’t sold out. And Paul is the only candidate who is pro-life, a strict constitutionalist who is a proven advocate of slashing the size of government. He’s also against the Iraq war, and has been since the beginning. But if genuine conservatives fail to succeed in electing Ron Paul, our only option will be to leave the GOP and form our own party, one that will truly stand by our conservative principles.
From today’s Courier-Journal:
One question would be, why are you now complaining about Democrat spending when you didn’t veto a single Republican spending bill your first term in office?
Even money says there’ll be a Cracker Barrel in there somewhere.
