My, my. Such animosity tonight. For the record, I voted for Reagan twice ... in '80 and again in '84. But we were in the middle of a Cold War then. Not the case today.
Re your comment "If you can't, then you were never a small government Republican, and, I believe, no Republican at all."
Interesting line of thinking. What you're saying, if I read you correctly, is that there's little or no room in the GOP today for divergent points of view. In other words, if one isn't marching in lockstep with "small government Republicanism" (as basically defined by Newt Gingrich), then one cannot be a Republican. You might be correct. The Republican Party today clearly is the party of white suburbia. All others enter by the back door, please.
Yes, I believe many of the ills of our present-day society can only be solved by a strong federal government. I will proudly go on the record on that point.
The opposite of a strong federal government is a weak federal government, in which states -- and big business -- carry much bigger sticks.
I'd rather have a strong federal government, thank you. |
