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To: NutCrackerBoy

"a very large number of Republican voters are both limited-government and social conservatives"

Not true. Here on FR, some will support the most outrageous forms and increases of welfare, freebies and general spending waste provided a speech is given with some folksy Biblical maxim.


4 posted on 08/01/2006 7:26:54 PM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: KantianBurke
Republicans have long maintained that good policy will ultimately be good politics, even if in the short term it is not always so...if Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, and Reagan (not to mention the framers of the Constitution) have been invalidated--if the laws of economics and the laws of human nature have changed so that centralized state power no longer threatens prosperity, liberty, or civic virtue--then by all means, the argument for limited government should be allowed to slide into disuse. -Andrew E. Busch

I had the impression, could be mistaken, that Milton Friedman was essentially the architect of compassionate conservatism. I've defined it to myself as the compromise to allow the GOP to exert some conservative influence on the country, instead of none (since electorally promises to shrink government just loses).

9 posted on 08/01/2006 7:49:23 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: KantianBurke
Not true. Here on FR, some will support the most outrageous forms and increases of welfare, freebies and general spending waste provided a speech is given with some folksy Biblical maxim.

I call them Alan keyes conservatives..after keyes reprehensible justification of Farm charity ( "moral decency to farmers " ).
11 posted on 08/01/2006 8:52:52 PM PDT by newfarm4000n (God Bless Taxpayers)
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