Thursday, March 08, 2007

Three terrible candidates

In response to George Will's preposterous claim that McCain, Giuliani, and Romney are all good candidates:

It's dangerous that leading conservatives like George Will have decided that continually surrendering freedom to government year after year is somehow "good," and even comparable to "perfect." Giuliani, McCain, and Romney aren't three good candidates at all - they are three horrible candidates, any one of which will end up being slightly better than the even worse Democrat. Continually voting for the lesser of two evils like these candidates has empowered government to steal our freedom at an ever accelerating pace for nearly a century.

None of these candidates comes close to supporting good government. None support a complete freeze on spending growth. None support the FairTax. None support abolishing the Department of Education. None support getting the government out of the business of health care. None support freedom.

Not only are they terrible for supporting the status quo instead of necessary reform if freedom is going to survive, but they each support further gross restrictions of freedom. McCain would jail Americans for exercising our innate right to free speech enumerated in the First Amendment. Giuliani would jail Americans for exercising our innate right to keep and bear arms enumerated in the Second Amendment. Romney would raise taxes for socialized medicine. We know these things because the candidates already have a track record on these issues, yet George Will and conservatives consider them good candidates.

America needs reform, and these candidates are anything but reformers. America needs to stop the growth of government power in it's tracks, and these candidates will do just the opposite.

It's scary that prominent conservatives can no longer be counted on to fight for freedom, a sad acknowledgment that Reagan was an anomaly, not the norm conservatives claim, and now consider the quick erosion of liberty by anti-freedom candidates as "good," and comparable to "perfect."

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