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November 06, 2004
Striking the Root of Republican Tricks
Prolific Root Striker Anthony Gregory, who must spend 32 hours a day at the keyboard, has written another great column at LewRockwell.com. This is the one to send to your libertarian and conservative friends who genuinely believe that the GOP is on their side and that Bush was the lesser of two evils in the last election. Here's a sample:
One of the few reasons many libertarians think the Republicans are preferable is a matter of aesthetics. The Democrats are simply shrewder, slimier, and more dishonest.
That’s the greatest Republican lie of all. Here is a party that has enlarged government far more than the opposition, and yet is still perceived – even by those who should know better – as the party of smaller government. Here is a party that calls itself pro-life, even as it federally funds abortions and cherishes war. Here is a party that lies about weapons of mass destruction and aggressively bombs, invades and occupies a country that meant us no harm, and gets away with saying the media are too hard on them and that Clinton was the real liar. Here is a party that accepts every fundamental premise in the culture of statism and favors the continuation or amplification of every government program under the sun, and yet can get away with talking about how they take our side, not the side of the government they control. That’s shrewd. That’s slimy. That’s dishonest.
The Republicans have done too much damage, and no good, to the cause of liberty. They have made both right and left think that capitalism is the equivalent of imperialism, guaranteeing we will have neither true economic liberty nor peace, and marginalizing those of us who want both. These rabid elephants in sheep’s clothing have taken far too many libertarian lambs to the slaughter, all the while pulling our own rhetorical wool over their eyes.
Posted by Mike Tennant at November 6, 2004 02:46 PM