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Donald J. Devine ,President Reagan's director of the Office of Personnel Management: ". . .there is nothing that pushes politics further to the right, leaving conservatism and the Republican Party to drift."

Eliminating double taxation on dividends? Putting privatizing Social Security on the table? Two tax cuts with 18 months to go in the first term? Contracting out 850,000 Federal job? Quietly inviting loggers, ranchers and miners to sue over restrictive environmental laws and then not defending the laws? Opposing Affirmative Action? Declaring the Second Amendment is an individual right? Pushing school choice?

"government keeps growing,"

Well, duh. The economy grows. The population grows. Boomers are starting to retire and use services. Government always grows. It is how large government is in relation to GDP which matters. Bush, even with a war, has a lower ratio than Clinton.

neoconservative dreams of empire ...

Oh please...

Couldn't agree more and thanks for the refreshing whiff of reality. How anyone can think that something positive will come out of abandoning the field to the left is completely beyond me.

Keep pressure on the Republicans? Absolutely. Stop voting out of pique over the fact that you can't get 100% of what you want? Childish.

It is how large government is in relation to GDP which matters.

No, it's the Constitution. The Founding Fathers designed the Constitution to limit the Federal government's (and to a lesser extent, state governments') intrusion on our lives. This government FAR exceeds the Constitutional limits. It's time to fight for Constitutional government.