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I think far too many “conservatives” have shallow, knee-jerk reactions: People who use drugs are part of the “left,” so the WOD must be a good thing. Public schools are part of “the American Way,” so the “conservative” project must be “school prayer,” “keep-God-in-the-Pledge,” “higher standards” and “reform.”

Huge amounts of energy, time, and money have been wasted on school prayer, flag-burning, sex-education, and such sideshows, and on piddly “pro-family” tax provisions (like “education accounts, “medical savings accounts,” education vouchers, etc.) because “conservatives” have been unready to go deeper. Get rid of the government schools, and you do away with at least a dozen “issues” that are eating up time, energy, and money—as well as people.

Your posts make me miss the old pre-Bush FR. The one where we all knew that public schools were a weapon to indoctrinate children and turn parents into babysitters for the State's property (children).

Nowadays, it's all about being "strategic". Let's give in on this liberal idea before the libs beat us to it. (Not that they could have passed a Pill Bill or a NCLB bill unless the GOP led the way on it. Same with SCHIP nuttiness. Or the Shamnesty.

We need to move back to real advocacy of limited government, states' rights, uphold the wisdom of relying on families to do the right things for their children.

Republican nanny-state solutions are just another flavor of statism, differing only in the details and intended beneficiaries from Democrat nanny-state solutions.

I suppose this is at the core of why I support Ron Paul currently. No one else wants to talk about those principles any more. I hope he can do something to re-ignite the old conservative small-government flame. Like Reagan and Gingrich tried to do and with at least some successes.

The time spent on those dubious political pursuits appears to be a ruse by the Rockefeller wing of the party to distract the people from the collectivism it so desperately seeks.