http://www.cato-unbound.org Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-limited-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/comment-page-1/#comment-370449 New at Cato Unbound: Can Republicans Stop Thinking Big? | Cato @ Liberty Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:54:18 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-small-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/#comment-370449 [...] and bestselling author David Frum kicks off this month’s edition of Cato Unbound, “The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together?,” with a provocative essay considering whether the window of political opportunity has [...] [...] and bestselling author David Frum kicks off this month’s edition of Cato Unbound, “The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together?,” with a provocative essay considering whether the window of political opportunity has [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-limited-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/comment-page-1/#comment-7940 indi.ca » Oversea Change Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:44:35 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-small-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/#comment-7940 [...] Republicans have been quick to latch on to the ideology of Conservatism, mainly because it is solid. However, like organized religion, they have taken admirable ideals and corrupted and perverted them beyond recognition. Reagan was their posterboy, but George W. Bush has taken what was left of Conservatism and sucked the soul from it. On the most obvious points, his Department on Homeland Security and convoluted expansion of Medicare have been the biggest growth in government size, cost and bureaucracy since the New Deal (discussion via Cato Institute). He has also attacked individual freedoms by demanding warrantless wiretapping, detention of people without charges, and basically suspending habeas corpus. I read Rush Limbaugh cause people listen to him and even he is fed up, There hasn’t been any ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism, for at least two to maybe four years. You could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of ‘04, but in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn’t conservatism that lost. Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat. It won in a number of places. Republicanism lost. [...] [...] Republicans have been quick to latch on to the ideology of Conservatism, mainly because it is solid. However, like organized religion, they have taken admirable ideals and corrupted and perverted them beyond recognition. Reagan was their posterboy, but George W. Bush has taken what was left of Conservatism and sucked the soul from it. On the most obvious points, his Department on Homeland Security and convoluted expansion of Medicare have been the biggest growth in government size, cost and bureaucracy since the New Deal (discussion via Cato Institute). He has also attacked individual freedoms by demanding warrantless wiretapping, detention of people without charges, and basically suspending habeas corpus. I read Rush Limbaugh cause people listen to him and even he is fed up, There hasn’t been any ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism, for at least two to maybe four years. You could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of ‘04, but in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn’t conservatism that lost. Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat. It won in a number of places. Republicanism lost. [...]

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