Truer words were never stated...
The 2012 Republican primaries may be a rerun of the 2008 primaries, where the various conservative candidates split the conservative vote so many ways that the candidate of the mushy middle got the nomination — and then lost the election.
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
Actually, when a "politician," or a group of "politicians" do it, it's still robbery (or thievery), according to Jefferson and America's founding generation.
As a matter of fact, that makes it even worse, for it means that what You legally can't take from your neighbor using a gun, you can get a corrupt politician and his cohorts to take using a man-made "law."