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To: grey_whiskers
Just read it. I disagree with very little. He didn't mention voter fraud, without which I don't think 0moslem would have won. Second, the mercantilism of Great Britain had many warts, but that's minor to his main points. I like this paragraph (among others):

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney lost in 2012. Some, as I suggested in an earlier post, were his fault. Some of them were not. One of the latter is that the demographic deck was stacked against him in a fashion that it was not stacked against Ronald Reagan in 2008. If we do not find a way to reverse the sexual revolution, we are doomed. The future of liberty is contingent on the success of the social conservatives. The libertinism that some libertarians ostentatiously embrace provides the growth in the administrative entitlements state with its impetus. If to be a libertarian is to favor political liberty, then libertarians must embrace social conservatism. If to be a libertarian is to embrace sex, drugs, and rock and roll, then libertarians are the proponents -- whether witting or not -- of the soft despotism that threatens to engulf us.

I don't think it's so soft, and it will get harder.

18 posted on 12/03/2012 7:11:47 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
I don't think it's so soft, and it will get harder.

Given Rahe's central contention, that was an...interesting choice of words.

Cheers!

19 posted on 12/03/2012 7:13:12 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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