So you think you're a Republican?
Submitted by Thomas L. Knapp on Fri, 01/04/2008 - 22:09.
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.
More than 40 years after Barry Goldwater ran for President of the United States on the above version of the World's Smallest Political Platform, his party continues to reject that platform in action.
While Goldwater failed of election in 1964, most Republican successes since then -- most especially the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the "revolution" of 1994, and the election of George W. Bush in 2000 -- have been built on pale reprises of Goldwater's promise. And most Republican failures since then have been a product of failure to follow through on that promise.
Big-government Republicans dominated in Iowa on Thursday, raking in a combined 90% of the votes cast in the GOP's presidential nomnination caucus. The only "Goldwater Republican" on the ballot pulled about 10% of the vote.
Are you a Goldwater Republican?
Has your party abandoned you for the big-government philosophies of Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani?
Maybe it's time to consider finding, or founding, a better party: A real smaller-government party with a real smaller-government platform.
Have a look at this consistently smaller-government party and this WSPP-adoptive organization. The Republican Party doesn't deserve your support ... so stop giving it to them.
