[tpaine]

But several conservatives, young and old, said the greatest division in the movement pitted young traditionalists against their more libertarian peers.

David Weigel, 22, the former editor of a conservative magazine at Northwestern University, a contributor to the libertarian magazine Reason and an intern at the editorial page of USA Today, ---

contended that even young conservatives who maintained a strict moral code for themselves were increasingly reluctant to regulate the behavior of others.


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HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity wrote:
Good grief. Is this what has happened to the conservative movement? What a waste of time. What ever happened to cutting taxes and reforming education?
What on earth are these kids studying these days?


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Perhaps they are studying the principles of our Republic, -- wherein the Founders contended that while eveyone should maintain a strict moral code for themselves, --- 'We the People' should be very reluctant to allow any level of government to regulate the behavior of others.

26 tpaine
(No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)

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What current "conservative" policies "regulate the behavior of others"?
27 HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity


Um..read #27 and get back to me.
No idea what on earth you could be
thinking of.
28 HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity


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Absurd claim you make. You have "no idea" that ALL levels of our governments, -- fed/state/local, -- are making ever increasing numbers of 'laws' to regulate the behavior of others?

Virtually every other post on FR is made about some new outrageous 'law' imposed upon us by the RinoCratic regime that infests DC, and every Statehouse in the USA.

Pretending that the GOP is blameless in our slide into socialism is ludicrous.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Very boring. As you should have been able to discern, the post and citation concerned global condom distribution and the question of abstinence in the young conservative's comment i.e., he was talking about sexual controversies. It does NOT "regulate" the behavior of others merely to NOT fund UN depopulation schemes. No one is prevented in the United States of America from purchasing condoms or fornicating freely and privately in the leisure of their own home. Hence, no one is being "regulated" by conservatives or conservative policies on this matter. The pseudo "libertarian" spin on this is rather lame.

Tom Paine was an extremist wacko, by the way. Totalitarian secular humanism is not part of the conservative tradition. Nor is it mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Paine's Jacobinism died a deserving death in the gallows of 18th-century France. No serious man romanticizes that or venerates its memory.