"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives."
- Editorial Page, Sunday Portland Oregonian
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This is where the new Christian social conservative types turn traditional Republican doctrine on its butt. They say they want limited government, but what they leave standing after they destroy everything else is completed directed toward telling how people should be running their lives. It's really a theocratic form of social engineering. Whereas conservatives used to pound on liberals for trying to use public policy to recast personal behavior, the right wing Christian types are up to the same trick, using the power of the state to push everyone into a pew.
This is why they hate the Islamist jihadists so much. They know exactly what the jihadists have in mind, because they see it in the mirror every day.
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There is no greater example of how Conservatives today have embraced "social engineering" than what they are trying to do in Iraq. Complete, I might add, with "nation building", "massive goverment (deficit) spending", and "affirmative action". Things Conservatives ran and preached against for decades.
We're not in Kansas anymore . . . .
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