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To: C. Edmund Wright

The Founders also INSISTED on virtue. If you think they thought government was nothing but naked power and that they were not interested in virtue, only in naked power limiting naked power then no wonder you hated Santorum’s guts.

Will the government ever be “full of virtuous people.” No. But that doesn’t mean virtue has no place.

See, it takes virtue to adhere to a limited-government constitution. Deny a role to virtue and you instantaneously guarantee that the Constitution, with its limits on power,
won’t
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23 posted on 04/23/2012 9:43:35 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.

With due respect, you are just as clueless as Mary is today. Yes, I know the Founders wanted virtue - but their insurance policy against lack of virtue was LIMITED GOVERNMENT. Less government equals more virtue - and any body can figure that out. Meanwhile, how the hell are we supposed to figure out who is and who is not virtuous. Ed Gillespie, former head of the RNC, as a model for VIRTUE? GIMME A BREAK.


70 posted on 04/23/2012 10:05:11 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Houghton M.

Then No wonder you hated Santorum’s guts....

No, I hated santorums guts because he is a big government socialist lite type, in the casting of the bushes.....

I did not even pay attention to what he said, or the type of sweater he was wearing, I paid attention to his RECORD, damnit, RECORD..... let me repeat that for those of you with the rose colored glasses on, or those easily fooled... RECORD.... santorums record makes him a big government socialist lite... mcromenys record makes him a socialist at best, communist lite at worst... Gingriches record makes him the only conservative left....

Big government, socialist lite, socialist, communitst lite or communist.... THEY ARE ALL THE SAME!!!! They are enemies of the republic, and casting a vote for anyone that falls into the above catagories, for whatever reason you wish to fool yourself into believing, makes you not only part of the problem, BUT A TRAITOR TO THE COUNTRY AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR!!!!

Your ballot says not only who you are but what you are... what are you???


173 posted on 04/23/2012 11:19:02 AM PDT by joe fonebone (If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil.)
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