The term "conservatism" today implies regimentation, order, hammering down every nail standing up, conformity, intolerance of individual thinking, and the state is your friend.
The term "conservatism" today implies regimentation, order, hammering down every nail standing up, conformity, intolerance of individual thinking, and the state is your friend.
God willing we "Paleos" may soon be able to drop the loathsome prefix and put a true conservative face back on the Republican Party.
I think he told the Iowans at the straw poll that he wasn't for corn subsidies.
Precisely.
A good campaign would have anticipated the issue and would have had an honest but nuanced reply at the ready.
A campaign is not a Political Science lecture.
A good response could have been something along the lines of:
"It is not the Federal Government's job to tell Farmers what crops to grow, and that is exactly what a subsidy does - it locks farmers into raising those crops which attract the highest subsidies out of someone else's pocket. It is unfair to the farmer and to the person whose pocket is being picked for the subsidy, and it is NOT one of the Federal Government's Constitutionally defined duties. I do favor lower taxes which do not penalize farmers for being successful."