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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: tejek who wrote (42304)3/22/2010 3:25:51 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
I do think that some conservatives are overconfident about November, but I think this vote will still hurt the Democrats at the elections.

The elections concern me less than the harm this vote will do to the country.

But we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan.

Romney's plan was a plan in one state, which is a major difference than a national plan. Also its probably the strongest cause of opposition to him within the Republican party. It doesn't represent anything close to traditional Republican ideas, certainly not conservative ideas, and its the opposite of libertarians. Not that "libertarian = conservative", but the conservatives where effective, when they could ally with libertarians, and the Republican party was strong when it received the support of each of those groups. If the Republicans are to dump the libertarians, the statists are likely to mostly remain with the Democratic party anyway. Big government is a losing strategy for Republicans, and that's even if the goal is only to win elections. If its to actually achieve implement conservative principles, big government becomes more than just a poor strategy its aiming at the wrong goal.

A deal would have been bad for the Republicans election chances in the short and medium run, bad for conservative principles under any run, and bad for the country except to the extent that a slightly less worse bill might possibly have been passed (and even if that happened, it could always have been added to later on, so its only a moderate delay).
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