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To: wagglebee
IIRC (without reading back through all of the posts), on this thread you have endorsed gambling, drugs, and pornography.

Wrong! I oppose unConstitutional federal bans on such things. Big, huge, giant difference. IMO it is not conservative to unConstitutionally use the federal government to solve social problems.

The poster claimed that social conservatives are also small government conservatives. I agreed that in many cases that is true, but in some cases it is not -- and used unConstitutional federal involvement in the social issues I mentioned as an example.

Too many people think that if you oppose a social ill, you must use the federal government to try to "fix" it. If you don't advocate a big federal government "fix," well, then you must advocate said social ills. That is the mindset that I see too often, even around here.

192 posted on 07/27/2009 1:57:18 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: ellery

Why is it that libertarians are prepared to take everything in the Constitution literally EXCEPT the Commerce Clause?


194 posted on 07/27/2009 2:15:45 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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