Posted by
CPT on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:21:07 PM
So many (all but one?) of the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination have no idea what conservatism entails, or care less. They simply pander to the sheople offering statist balms ("services" and "programs") to the ignorant. At one time many republicrats WERE conservatives. Where have most gone?
Mike Huckabee is a good example. While I don't think he is a
liberal plant as Douglas Mackinnon does, he certainly is no conservative. Any one who wishes to project their "conservative" mores onto the citizenry (and illegals too in Huckabee's case) by coercive government is no true conserative.
Huckabee proposes a "nationwide" ban on smoking tobacco. I'd love to know exactly what part of the Constitution he believes empowers the Federal behemoth to have such a power. He wants to use government coercion to control people's selection of what food and drink they wish to consume. He is ardently, but in a statist fashion, pro-life/anti-abortion. He believes in more rather than less taxes. He supports, unabashedly, activist and intrusive government. He is, in short, a statist. A statist conservative is an oxxymoron. Don't vote for a statist, vote for the candidate who stands for FREEDOM, and
hope for America.
We at the Amfree Network hold life to be an inherent unalienable right and that life begins at conception. The Federal government isn't the proper place to ensure such. Some of our contributors will disagree. The State and, even more so, the community is where maximum governmental intrusion on life should be empowered. There, the people impacted can CHOOSE in freedom and liberty how best to ensure individual rights and community harmonly.
Fight against growing government. Fight for the return to the Constitutional principles of government our
founders espoused.
Fight for
LIBERTY!!