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Barry Goldwater wept.
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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I wonder if there's any single position officially taken by the Democratic party that is as fundamentally embarrassing to its core values (as professed here) as H.J. Res. 56 is fundamentally embarrassing to the GOP's core values (as expressed here, and by all GOP candidates before Reagan --- except Nixon).
Guys, your original core values can't win elections, but at least they had honorable intentions. "Republicans' only coherent notion, family values, is a euphemism for collectivism. Individual rights have no place in the Republican Party.". Your recent praise of Reagan does no honor to the dead libertarianism you profess --- rather, it honors the cynical pragmatism that has resulted in the manipulation of the out-of-control religious zealotry now informing our nation's foreign and domestic policy. Reagan had the guts to ignore the reactionary wingnuts after he got elected. That made him a hypocrite, but at least he was a leader.
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Apparently the Republicans in Congress are too libertarian (in the sense of having principles, as opposed to the sense of having run a different cost-benefit analysis) to want to push this, but the White House wants it out there to help with the election.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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