“I’m quite shocked at how eagerly some are to accept government control as ‘conservative’.”
I for one am not an anarchist. I realize that all government control is not intrinsically evil. Like I have stated, that line of reasoning is just libertarian/libertine ideology.....which is NOT conservative. Whether you want to accept it or not, pornography is a blight on mankind and NOTHING good has ever come from it. So, getting upset that a candidate wants to put some controls on it does not equate to “Big Brother.” Once again that is Ron Paul libertarian thinking.
You are right, it is not Conservative, in the 19th Century European sense of the word. A 21st Century American Conservative is more correctly a Classical Liberal. A Conservative under its true definition, would have been a strong supporter of absolute monarchy and a strong Catholic Church. Like a Carlist during the Spanish Civil War. So you see why maybe some Classical Liberals might have a problem with Santorum. As a true believer in the American Tradition I would have less problem with Mormonism than extreme Catholicism, from an American perspective.
“Whether you want to accept it or not, pornography is a blight on mankind and NOTHING good has ever come from it.”
If the government regulates the internet how long do you think it would be before they deem opposition to them as “a blight on mankind that nothing good can come from”?
“...pornography is a blight on mankind and NOTHING good has ever come from it.”
Not sure why you ping Jim Robinson about this subject, but I did since you did.
What is your definition of pornography? Do you want yourself or Santorum or the US Senate, controlled by Democrats, to decide which of these legal websites should be removed? What if Democrats decide Free Republic is not a decent website and they remove it - is that okay with you?
So....would you say Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni’s work was porn?