George W. Bush Conservatism
Here is a short summary of George W. Bush’s anti-conservative policies while in office. I blog this mostly for personal future use next time someone tries to claim Republican leaders are actually conservative.
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I opposed Bush during the run-up to the 2000 election because he didn’t seem to qualify as a conservative. I wasn’t wrong.
Comment by Reach Upward — March 19, 2007 @ 9:55 am
In my eyes, both of the major parties have sought to impose their own brands of tyranny. Instead of attempting to leave people free to pick and choose, they instead try and setup their own programs and laws that compel people to pick whatever it is The Powers That Be have decided is best.
I’ve been absolutely appalled at how supposed conservative Republicans in this state misuse and abuse their power to bully cities and counties and take away local choice. If they believed a word they said, they’d be devolving authority away from the state faster than we’d know what to do with. It leaves me disgusted.
Comment by Jesse Harris — March 19, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
Jesse,
Well said. I completely agree with you. The anti-federalist propensities of the Republican Party are one of the major factors which drove me away. I also agree with you that the National Democrats typically aren’t any better. I’ve come to the conclusion that divided government is the only way to slow the erosion of the freedoms and founding principles ensured to us by our founding documents and their authors.
At the local level we really do need some actual partisan competition. That will require more moderate Utahns to take some initiative and a little bit of political risk. We need to make the Democratic Party into an entity which can effectively provide a counterbalance to the cartel currently running our state. A blue dog Democratic Party apparatus should be a natural fit in Utah…I’m surprised more conservatives haven’t considered the idea of accepting the open invitation Democrats in this state have offered them. Our state is worse off because of their unwillingness to break away from the Republican Party which currently serves the interests of a very narrow demographic.
Comment by Jeremy Manning — March 19, 2007 @ 3:19 pm