Posted on 03/27/2017 2:36:04 PM PDT by TBP
Today's governor, Doug Ducey, is demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the limited-government conservatism with which Sen. Goldwater shaped the modern GOP, after himself being shaped by life in the leave-me-alone spirit of the wide open spaces of near-frontier Arizona.
Last year, Ducey, now 52, told National Review, "If you want to learn something new, you need to read something old. As Barry Goldwater wrote in 'Conscience of a Conservative,' 'My aim is not to pass laws, it’s to repeal them.' " Ducey was preaching what he already had practiced.
He took office in January 2015, as the Super Bowl was about to be played in suburban Glendale. The head of a state agency vowed that he was going to stage a sting to put Uber out of business, thereby benefiting Uber's taxi and limousine competitors. Ducey says he fired the man and abolished the agency.
Ducey has sided with Airbnb against local governments restricting it to protect competitors, and has removed government-imposed limits (benefiting large beer brands) on the growth of microbreweries. He does not want Arizona to be part of "the permission society."
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Freaking GEORGE WILL wrote this..?
Good God, yuck.
Why, it's practically a giant dude ranch. Git along little Georgie.
George Will - Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.
Zing!
Too bad George Will doesn’t believe any of it. Will is an technocrat/oligarch. This is just more pretend from the “Conservative” George Will.
YUP
The Wash. Compost won’t permit me to read the remainder of Will’s column.
Arizona seems to be pretty good at electing Governors, Senators, not so much.
George Will looks forward to a long career of this guy doing absolutely nothing.
I happen to have grown up on a ranch/farm just down the hill. In fact, I still remember being on that expanse of hills to picnic to hunt below.
A huge group of us were up there one Sunday and though I was very young, I remember the adults up there all turning on the car radios to hear the news just coming across the airwaves, that Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun,had bombed Pearl Harbor.
I can still see myself standing on that hill watching a huge red sun set in the west, turning the whole valley red. Some very poignant images there.
My father, born in 1911, was a friend of Goldwater. I heard stories for years about him. He was not a true conservative, but rather a libertarian. He was politically pro-life when it was to his advantage,but he supported Planned Parenthood and his wife was on their board.
But, I know that spirit of leave me alone in Arizonans born and bred. As a fourth generation rebel of the west with a family history back to 1882, I also know that Conservatism is neither Libertarian nor GOPe Progressive light. It is deeper and more profound than either of the above. It is fiercely independent and fiercely charitable at the same time. It is not to be found in Will’’s writings. It is found in the whole history and philosophy of the Judeo/Christian west rooted in Greece and Rome.
Ducey has a corporatist Libertarian bent himself although he is doing some very good things. But he is no Kirkian conservative.
We really must bring true, classical conservatism back into the Republican Party and rid it of those who with ignorance or neo-Marxist malice continue to use it to form the corporatist state.
Not since Goldwater. (Though Fannin, his colleague, was pretty good.)
He’s syndicated. You can probably find the column on the net with a search.
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