Dissatisfaction

What did they really think? Was the out and out pandering to the looney Religious Right really worth it? How about the thorough thrashing of the Reagan conservative principles?

“The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”

This quote was pulled from an Andrew Sullivan article which was referred to by a site I was not familiar with, but will now check out routinely. What go me clickin' was Totten's article on the perceived melt down of the Republican party. I'm in agreement with Michael on this. While I'm not a Repub, I just feel my skin crawl with their actions in the past week or so. Their beliefs are showing them to be no better than the Dems. It's Big Govt, pure and simple. They spout 'State Rights' like it's a mantra from the past. Yet, in every case, when push comes to shove, they fall back to Big Govt. Let's see... Gay Marriage, Medical Marijuana, Right-to-Die. So, much for the Sanctity of Marriage with the Schiavo debacle. Your rights now belong to Big Govt. Then there's Sullivan's point on the time honored local control of Education:

In the 1980s Republicans wanted to abolish the federal Department of Education, believing local control was best. Bush has all but ended local control, introduced national standards and added a huge increase in federal spending. No wonder Ted Kennedy, the arch liberal Democratic senator, voted for the bill.

The current spending by the Bush Admin is going through the roof with no end in site. This should give us all pause. Their version of Conservatism is a joke, it's just a one-off of the Democratic view, with just the 'right' touch of religious zeal.