[Sherman Logan]

I think David nails it with this one.

Excessive elitism is bad. But expertise has its place, too.

[vbmoneyspender]

I think David needs to have a little more faith in the common sense of Republican primary voters.

[goldstategop]

The problem is the expertise is weighed towards strengthening statism and nannyism. So yes, I'm a populist and I do support the Fair Tax because I want to knock out the main pillar of collectivist philosophy - the income tax.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Frum needs to get his facts straight....

I am no supporter of Huckabee or Paul, but I notice a lot of the globalist crowd attacks the FairTax

First, it was not devised by the Scientologists. We have had a “FairTax” before....before the start of Income Tax in the early 20th C., we raised almost all of our Federal revenue from taxes on goods (the liberal globalists would call these “tarriffs”). We always had enough revenue to run the Federal govt before the Income Tax

This was well before L Ron Hubbard was born

The income tax was an idea orginated from that friend of capitalism...Karl Marx....one of Marx’s ten points of his Communist Manifesto was an income tax.

The FairTax is a much better way to raise revenue, and, it actually encourages free market economics and free trade. An income tax always stifles growth because it puts limits on how much one can make

Also, the income tax is a way to control people...punish those not in favor of the government...while rewarding its favorites. Government loses that control in a FairTax

Of course, most globalists fear the FairTax, because it takes away control from govts friendly to globalist entities. Many multi-nationals fear a FairTax would promote competition.

There are many honest criticsms of Huckabee and Paul, but whenever I hear someone bashing FairTax or “Populism”....you can bet its always some nutty liberal globalist

[Clemenza]

Having STANDARDS is important. Remember that the populace is fickle, and can turn on a dime.

A big problem I have with SOME California Republicans is that instead of adhering to conservative principles, they instead embrace the "will of the people" populism which is contrary to our founding documents. Yeah, the sheep, er, people may vote to restrict the benefits of illegal aliens one day, but tomorrow they can also vote to take your guns away.

Remember, Democracy = two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner.

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Frum's right about the dangers of too much populist sentimentality.

But it should be noted that he's very much in Giuliani's camp.

Excessive sentimentality has never got in the way of careerism for David Frum.