This is libertarianism?  Supporting Gov. Romney-care?  The man who thinks government should be in charge of every employer/employee relationship.  The man who thinks the government should force every adult to purchase health insurance.  The man who thinks the government should be involved in every medical decision made by doctor or patient.  This is the man “libertarians” want, because the thought of a social conservative makes their poor delicate libertarian hearts all a flutter.

Look I am not happy about Sen. Santorum’s record on spending.  He is a compassionate conservative, which Pres. Bush showed us means watch your wallet tax payer.  But he isn’t defending the indefensible of socialized medicine as Gov. Romney continues to do to this day.  Santorum is a compassionate Conservative, but he IS a Conservative.  Romney is, as I said, nothing a man of  no principles, whose only reason for going to DC is to “make Washington work.”  I don’t want Washington to work, I want Washington to get out of the way so the American people can get back to work.

None of this matters to “libertarians.”   Their love of liberty ends when social conservatives express Freedom of Speech.  They rallied to the genuine, unquestionably statist Obama in 08 and they will again, because What PJ O’Rourke said about liberals and liberty applies to libertarians as well.  ”The only freedom they want is the freedom to say bad words and put anything they want in their mouths.  It is the freedom of two year old.”

Which would be fine if we had a GOP nominee with a quad.  Gov. Perry’s job creation in the Great State of Texas should have been that quad.  But, as always seems to happen when a Texas Republican leaves Texas, Perry managed to bungle the only message the American people wanted to hear right now:  here’s how I created jobs in my state, here’s how I am going to create jobs in the United States.

Santorum is a compassionate conservative, and you can insert my eye roll here.  But Romney is not anything, not conservative, not liberal, he is a zero.  Obama is many things but mostly he is a man of principle.  Alas, they are the Marxist principles of one determined to punish the enemies of socialism.   But still they are principles.

We need a quad, we desperately need a quad.   I just don’t see anyone in the GOP with one.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290276/were-all-catholics-now-david-french

You can not attack the Liberty of one citizen without attacking the Liberty of all.  A fact those who call themselves “liberal” conveniently forget whenever a fellow citizen dares to commit the liberal heresy of standing by ancient traditions and institutions.  An attack on the Freedom of Conscience of Catholics is an attack on all of our Freedoms.  I stand today side by side with Catholic Americans whose Free Exercise of Religion is also my own.   Furthermore I demand that Congress impeach Sec. Sebelius for violating the First Amendment.

Cutting spending 43% and getting social issues off the GOP platform works for you?  Great now please tell me how?  You’re basically describing Schwarzenegger’s original platform, you know how well that worked out.

 

If we have these massive spending cuts, how do we pay for the lack of social reforms.  1 out of 3 children are currently born out of wedlock, mostly the government pays for them.  After this grand spending blow up who pays for those kids?  And who pays for the drug treatments or incarcerations statistics tell us a large number of them will need?   Who pays for the ever growing VD epidemic?  Who pays for the incredibly expensive AIDS treatment?  Who pays for abortions?  Tell me please how we square this circle?

 

If you are going to tell me in that cutsey libertarian pie in the sky fable We The People are going to make these people pay for themselves, consider me laughing in your face.  Americans are not going to be able to stand by and watch the excesses of social liberalism play out in impoverished children and keep those spending cuts we all need so much. 

 

Social liberalism fiscal conservatism sounds so good.  I was a fan of it myself when I was much younger.  The problem always is that social liberalism is very expensive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMPT8Y_KT4

And that’s what worries me. Yes Gov. Palin has a message people want to hear, but so did Sen. Obama 3 years ago.  Reagan flattered the American people as does Palin.  Obama flattered the American people, and apologized for them when they weren’t around to see.

The American people don’t need flattery; they need truth.  This economic situation is our own fault.  We have endlessly passed program after program to take the hard edges and risk out of life.  We have lined up an endless parade of unsustainable, entitlement programs.  We expect our Social Security taxes to be waiting for us in a giant vault like Scrooge McDuck’s wealth.  We think the work of doctors and medical researchers is ours by right.  We expect that we can drop our kids at the local government school and they we all emerge prodigies.  We expect the finest University system in the world to grant our children degrees worth a million dollars, even if their work is worthless.  We have demanded more from government while demanding government stop spending. 

There was never enough money to pay for the New Deal; there was never enough money to pay for the Great Society; there was never enough money to pay for Prescription Drug entitlements and No Child Being Left Behind.  There was always going to have to be a day of reckoning and that day has arrived.

We don’t need flattery; we need truth.  Pay your own damn doctor, save for your own retirement, you want your kids to be smart then throw away the video games and buy them books!  

Of course anyone who said this would be tarred and feathered.  But that’s what needs saying.