A conservative position
“Bush’s decisions don’t seem principled. I’ve tried to find the underlying philosophy what will knit together the last eight years. I can’t divine it. Maybe you can. I certainly don’t recognize him as a conservative. He has increased government size and oversight in ways that appall me. ”
“For me, the heart of conservatism rests on the concepts that small government is better than large government, local government is better than remote government, and private property and individual freedom and more important than social good. ”
“American conservatism is much more libertarian than not and we’ve lost sight of the strong appeal that the desire to be left alone has for people. Rather than being defined as the party of less government intervention, Republicans have settled for being about some kinds of intervention and not others. The key difference between Republicans and Democrats today is what kind of intervention you favor. ”
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