Just add that to ethanol and higher power prices due to shutting down the coal plants and whatever else the kenyan can figure out in his quest to eliminate the middle class and/or institute famine.
Whenever I read articles like this I can’t help but think of Mike Huckabee. Huckabee oversaw a doubling of his state’s budget during his tenure as Governor.
As far as I’m concerned I think the title of the article should instead be, ‘Social Conservatives should unite with Fiscal Conservatives and Libertarians.’
Liberdopians will never unite with social conservatives, they are far too concerned with baser instincts and desires to focus on advancing civilization
In their pursuit of political relevance, Libertarians must understand three important points:
1) A libertarian is differentiated from the statist by virtue of enforcement not morality; i.e., libertarianism alone does not define one’s morality.
2) A woman’s sense of liberty is not defined by the right to kill the nascent, human life in her womb. The libertarian should be cognizant of both the mom and the new life.
3) No citizen should be forced to service, support, nor subsidize homosexual behavior.
The three groups have certain beliefs in common: limited government (oh woops except for constraining individual liberty when it conflicts with one group’s social values); lower taxes (except when it suits some of one group’s belief in social philanthropy ); and a reduction in regulations (oh except when that one group wants to impose its family values on everyone else.)
By all means let’s use the ideological beliefs of that one group as the underlying common denominator for unifying the three groups under the Republican party. That has worked sooo well in the past.
Conservative social issues DO NOT require government services, but CUT government services.
If they are not socially conservative, they are very likely not fiscally conservative either. Liberal social policies have a huge cost to society.
I agree with this. I don’t understand why social conservatives have allowed themselves to be used by the GOPe so badly.
I think SCs have made some errors in which people they have supported and made alliances with. They have also wasted energy on hopeless and insignificant causes like teaching creationism in public schools.
The idea that we can have a nice society to live in without some kind of social conservatism is absurd.