Posted on 02/03/2015 4:40:25 AM PST by Biggirl
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that “too many conservatives like centralized government, even while they preach otherwise” on Monday.
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Levin is right, but he should not consider Lindsay girl a conservative.
Freedom and Limited government are no longer central Conservative values.
The big Conservative values these days are Government control to make people do the right thing.
I guess we've become a different flavor of Liberalism. Thsi country is so over.
Agreed.
Yep. Conservative often just means an ambitious liberal in a geography where it is easier to run in the GOP.
It has since become a metastasized cancer that permeates our entire existence.
Better yet was when he laid into Walker’s squishy amnesty statements.
The media and the GOP elites always call themselves conservatives. The left loves to paint the GOP elites as conservatives because they also know the GOP elites are not conservatives.
Conservatives win, but people think they do not because the big losers are usually GOP elites.
So you can be a "conservative" and still support constitutional government (which says nothing about the optimal size of government). The real problem is central government getting into things it should never be involved with, like wealth re-distribution.
How centralized was the Truman administration? Would that be a good measurement tool?
NO EPA.
NO DHS.
NO Dept of Educ.
NO TSA.
Less IRS.
NO ‘czars’.
NO federalized local cops.
Less FCC.
Where has he been?
But I would emphasize two essential points -- "Constitutional government" basically means "the federal government should not do much" and "the states should make their own decisions".
People who have read the Constitution understand this. The military? Yeah, that's a federal matter. Social welfare? Not a federal matter.
in the end it is all about power - and absolute power corrupts absolutely. They are human beings - fallen, corrupt souls so we should expect this. Even the most ardent conservative will fall to the demon of power. Even Ronald Reagan has that monstrous world’s largest government building named after him. His family should of stood up and said “NO”; but they didn’t. Why?
It served us well for four score and seven yeas to be exact.
Those values have been left behind by rings and pseudo conservatives.
Sorry? Rinos
The problem I have is that the feds take massive sums of money from the states then use it as a cattle prod to force the states to federal will.
The bulk of tax dollars should never leave the states but be kept at home where the people of the individual states can decide how to spend it.
Our Republic has LONG been dead...and I do not see it getting any better anytime sooner, nor later.
IMHO, it only lasted until the War of Northern Aggression (the ‘Civil’ War [war to change the sitting power structure/leadership]....Which, I guess, IS the correct term, but 180 degrees, and more to my point)
Instead of utilizing the tool(s) at hand (Amendment process), the North went to war to force their will upon the rest of the (Southern) States.
Lo and behold, they pass the 13th/14th/15th Amendments, and use Reconstruction to force the State to comply by extortion (which invalidates all in my eyes) and yet, do the same even TODAY (Voting Rights Act)
Apparently they have not learned that any and every law made to promote or protect their values will swiftly be perverted to attack to them instead.
Dr Bill Bennett, conservative radio show host, has stated he is not a fan of state rights. Many people like him are in Washington.
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