Platt: > Start by joining a tea party. Call your representatives. Vote socialist > democrats out. Keep you eyes open for another Thatcher or Reagan. > Current governors of Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas look > promising.
Nick: Reagan was big government. He cut taxes but increased spending. The conservative movement never became conservative while they were in the White House. It's a principled problem. They cave in. The left has it's good side. It is huge on freedom of the press, speech, and liberty (innocent until proven guilty) violations. Yet the left is unprincipled too and usually makes compromises as well. It's the arbitrariness that needs to go. 99.9% of politicians are unprincipled. Bush was a so called conservative too and increased the size of the government as well. This is why conservatives are trying to find an identity with themselves now. They haven't followed through on their values yet when it comes to shrinking the government. There is a lot of sitting in the confession booth that needs to happen in all political parties. Governor of Texas is pandering to voters. Never brought up much of what he's saying now until his election got in trouble. He's been in office for a while now and turned a new leaf when his election was in trouble. He doesn't look to be a very principled person. Somebody that is strongly principled would only turn any tide in D.C. D.C. is too strong for arbitrary politicans that look at the election numbers. Need somebody that is virtuous and stands for what is right in the eyes of liberty. That's the extent of their self-interest, that's all it ought to be. Politicans, if they are to be virtuous, need to think of something more than their person. Nick -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
