And here we all thought Glenn Beck was making that stuff about Jon Stewart up!

Whatever. I just don't know that we are going to sit back and let a ThreeSourcer mercilessly bash our brave French allies...

Silence, when you say "fairness" and "social contract" I sincerely doubt you mean the same thing I would with the same terms. The difference between East Germany and France is the difference between evil and merely "wrong." Yes, this country was founded on a belief in freedom but that means more than just the right to toke up with impunity. As originally founded we had independent states whose citizens could shape to their democratic liking without infringing the rights of any more than their own citizens. That the federal government now does this on a national basis is what makes us little different from France.

Thanks for the welcome jk. There have been many libertarians in the Republican Party. I just want my politicians to be honest about it. He's pushing hard "FISCAL CONSERAVATIVE", and trying to convince everyone he's a total conservative (like this article). Then his team smears anyone trying to reveal his social issues. If he ran as a libertarian, I wouldn’t be posting.

Chuckle, yes JG I suppose we would differ on definitions. But, I do suspect that you and I would be closer than either of us to a Frenchman. A very big part of our founding was the concept of social and economic mobility. Religion gets big play as the reason to head to the new world, but in reality there was a much bigger economic draw. Yes the federal government has very much overstepped the bounds originally envisioned, but we still differ significantly by not having a system of lords and serfs in our background. I think that makes it easier for them to hand over authority to lordly government than it is for us. We are just wired a bit differently so our socialist tendencies are different as well.

Hey JK, I always like to point out that this little experiment we call America would have been crushed before it could start without the brave French Navy.

Hey there PoliticalMe. By "social libertarian" do you mean that Duffy is pro-choice? Scott Brown of Massachusetts is pro-choice but would you prefer to see Martha Coakley take Ed Kennedy's seat?

If you succeed in what I assume is your effort to defeat Duffy with a "total" conservative in the primary, does that candidate have as good a chance against Obey?

The Tea Partiers I met don't want the government spending our money or raising our taxes. Their concerns about taking inflexible positions against a woman's right to control the comings and goings within her uterus are way, way down on the priority list (for those to whom it is a priority at all.)

Greetings as well PoliticalMe. Sorry for hijacking this thread, it has been a while since I posted and I got carried away. You will probably find (we hope you will be back!) that a lot of the conservatives around here have some social libertarian in them. But we welcome all views, heck I am an unabashed liberal and they let me play!