tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post7192017866750959320..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: Small Government Means NOT Big GovernmentMungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-55771498002458150152009-01-05T14:07:00.000-05:002009-01-05T14:07:00.000-05:00I cannot think that any rational, reasonably intel...I cannot think that any rational, reasonably intelligent, and observant voter thought George W. Bush and/or the Republican party of the last two decades would produce "small government".Dirty Daveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908818235405186822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-55905642727675465802009-01-03T17:47:00.000-05:002009-01-03T17:47:00.000-05:00But Bush is not a neo-con. He seems to have been w...But Bush is not a neo-con. He seems to have been willing to use Big Govt as long as he could find a "moral" justification for doing so, and he somehow always was able to find it in religion.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I agree that the christian movement as a whole is a grass-root movement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-67074594218527301472009-01-03T14:07:00.000-05:002009-01-03T14:07:00.000-05:00No, because that minority was not the evangelical ...No, because that minority was not the evangelical right. It was the neo-conservative Straussian right. Until the Bush-Era, the evangelical right kept its big government advocacy limited to domestic social policy. The foreign interventionism, massive deficits, and economic innumeracy that will be Bush's legacy had nothing at all to do with Bible thumping.<BR/><BR/>Not that I'm apologizing for the social conservatives, but proper blame for the Mega-State we now live in has to go to the secular Straussians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-62002253285032595112009-01-03T00:17:00.000-05:002009-01-03T00:17:00.000-05:00"radical, statist..." should we add "evangelical" ..."radical, statist..." should we add "evangelical" to that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com