The Tempting of Conservatism

Before beginning, I have to apologize for the break in the posting routine...it's been a hectic couple of days...
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"Government is the problem, not the solution." Ronald Reagan.
This is my personal political principle just as it is for many of you and others around the world.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When the husband of our governor has three assistants; their six-digit salaries funded with workingman's dollars.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When an industry is collapsing and the ruling party just watches it...eating the taxpayers' popcorn and drinking the taxpayers' wine.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When people marry for taxes' sake

Government is the problem, not the solution

When they build dams and decide they hurt salmon and add a $200billion salmon transportation system involving ever-moving trucks and miles of tubing. Now the environmentalists now say to tear it all down.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When the owner of a small business collapses at home, his forehead wrinkled and sagging from stress of the murderous weight of the Single Business Tax.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When ships bottom out in Lake Michigan ports because the federal government decided to pump millions of gallons from the Great Lakes down to the desert.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When politicians create a war with good intentions but horrible conduct until the coming of the Great General

Government is the problem, not the solution

When packs of inner city men are driven by welfare into warfare.

Government is the problem, not the solution

When they spends half a billion dollars of our money on the failed Arab outreach TV station "Alhurra."

Government is the problem, not the solution

When humanity is forced to endure the silent screams of the unborn because five people, thirty years ago thought they could play God.

Government is the problem not the solution

Because governments have never done anything both efficiently and morally correct. Never.
So I ask: why should we trust them with our health care? Why should we not limit their terms and their salaries? Washington is broken. The list above continues infinately. Herbert Hoover said

Every expansion of government in business means that government, in order to protect itself from the political consequences of its errors and wrongs, is driven irresistibly, without peace, to greater and greater control of the nation's press and platform. Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

This is a true conservative principle. The Tempting of Conservatism comes in the form of the ideology of two men: George W. Bush and John McCain. These men are good conservatives socially. Politically, though, they seek and have sought to redefine what it means to be a conservative.

Government is the problem, not the solution. They are not hostile to the bureaucracy's corrupting influence. They seek not to slash its creeping, strangling vines. The auto, oil, and airline industries are strangled; health care is going: what's next? The call is to resist:

I am first and foremost an Christian. Second, I am an American. Third, a Conservative. Fourth, a Republican. I will never betray my principles, I will never give up my belief in God. Government will not be the master of my thoughts, it will not be the master of my soul. I am not behind John McCain.