Rick, I want the ****ing government to leave me the **** alone, and that includes you!
True conservatives don’t need a nanny state to watch their every move. They are self reliant. Free men can defend themselves and their neighbors. They don’t need overlords.
Santorum blew it on this issue.
A great quote from the SCOTUS about this:
[The] right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
-Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
-Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 479 (1928)
Rick believes that without moral *underpinnings* shared by most people in a society, that society will collapse. That’s patently true. If I have a beef with his comment, it’s that he is trying to guard a horse that has left its barn many years ago.
If YOU don’t believe in the Founders’ ideal that government exists to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (and property perhaps), YOUR argument is with the Founders. Rick explained his position very well on Beck on Wednesday. The Declaration is the “why” of America, and the Constitution is the owner’s manual which uses the Declaration as its preface. Bob