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To: Road Walker who wrote (330795)	3/29/2007 10:27:47 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575984

"Postwar planning in Iraq was so poor because many in the G.O.P. were not really alive to the truth that security is a precondition for freedom." Every once in a while, Brooks comes up with a brilliant observation. This is one of them. "The Republican Party, which still talks as if government were the biggest threat to choice, has lost touch with independent voters." Hence the talk about becoming a regional party. And it looks like they not only have lost them, they are accelerating away from them. And that is at their peril. Because the independents are the ones who really determine elections.

To: Road Walker who wrote (330795)	3/29/2007 12:18:39 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575984

JF, good article, but I might add that if Goldwater and Reagan are not models for the future, then neither is FDR. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (330795)	3/29/2007 2:55:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575984

People were right to believe that government was undermining personal responsibility. People were right to have what Tyler Cowen, in a brilliant essay in Cato Unbound, calls the “liberty vs. power” paradigm burned into their minds — the idea that big government means less personal liberty. And they are still right to think that. Not in a total universal absolute sense, with the idea that any government action hurts liberty. But generally government is expanding and reducing liberty, even if not always in the same way as before.