[George W. Bush]

The writer is a former Congressman and former chairman of ACU, the American Conservative Union. Currently, he is legal counsel for the Sovereign Society, an investment group specializing in offshore investments.

[George W. Bush]

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A Taft/Buckley/Goldwater ping.

[Darkwolf377]

The cancerous growth of the American Empire.

Next.

[West Coast Conservative]

I repeat that the USA Patriot Act is the single greatest assault on the U.S. Constitution ever perpetrated in American history.

Talk about hyperbole.

[End Times Crusader]

Can America survive a Ron Paul presidency? Thankfully we’ll never have to find out.

[Designer]

"..an investment group specializing in offshore investments."

Thanks for the post. Are these people (ignore any possible perjorative) globalists? (perjorative)

[MNJohnnie]

Ron Paul is Pat Buchannan with out the Irish charm. He has NO chance of getting even 1% of the vote. Without the proping up of the Anti American nut jobs at Moveon.org et al who thinks he is a wedge in the Conservative base, he would not even be a blip on the radar screen

[EGPWS]

Can Liberty Survive Big Government

That's an oxymoron.

[rob777]

“Nearly half a century ago “conservatism” meant opposing big government in all its forms, bureaucratic waste and pork barrel spending.”

Today we have a wing of “conservatives” trying to redefine conservatism so as to remove this cornerstone of what it is all about.

Ron Paul is doing a heroic job of trying to fight this, but his naivete on the threat of Islamic Fascism is something that I can not overlook.

The author of “Jeffersonian” non-interventionism in foreign policy, Jefferson himself, came to realize that groups fueled by a totalitarian ideological/theological vision will not leave us alone if we simply mind our own business.
His experience with the so-called “Barbary Pirates”, who were Islamic fanatics engaged in Jihad, changed his view on this matter.

Buckley/Goldwater/Reagan conservatism included resistance to totalitarian movements as well as standing for limited government.

[redpoll]

In another posting I mentioned Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates the specific and limited powers and obligations of Congress. As I was re-reading that section before writing my post it made me sad to think about how far we’ve deviated from those basic principles. Of course, this article’s premise has at its core the dim memory of the Roman Republic and the subsequent Empire, which haunts Western culture with its promises of peace and prosperity at the expense of the rule of law and the rights of citizens. (The same sort of haunting memory shadows the European Union continues its growth.)

My concern is not a Roman-style growth into the Empire. I fear a quick decline into chaos, like the two years preceding 1860 or 1931, pushed by unexpected events and incomptent, corrupt public servants. The year 2009 could be very, very different from what I’m experiencing right now.

On the other hand, if we are heading down the path of Rome, that would mean 1,000 years of American nationhood - and the eastern Romans lasted even longer than that, for almost 1,300 years. It’s just an analogy, anyway. We are our own creators of our own destiny.