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The Spectacle Blog
As Mitt Romney announces his candidacy for president, every conservative — indeed, every lover of liberty — should remember that this is a man who CONTINUES to believe that it is ethically defensible for a state government to require its citizens to buy a product they don’t want, simply on the basis that they live and breathe in the state. By the logic of Romneycare, the state can mandate that an individual buy asparagus. It can force you to buy toy choo-choo trains. Heck, a perverse state could even FORCE you to buy cigarettes.
Yeah, yeah, I know: Nothing in the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits such a mandate at the state level. Fine. This isn’t an argument about constitutionality; it’s an argument about First Principles, about the nature of liberty itself. Romney fails the test of First Principles; he fails to respect the Natural Law; he fails to observe the idea that government’s proper ends and means should be limited.
His full name is Willard Mitt Romney. Old horror-movie watchers may think the name is appropriate.
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Proud Mormon| 6.2.11 @ 10:57AM
To all you nay saying Tea Partiers and Evangelicals, a Mormon will be the next President of the United States and it's NOT John Huntsman.
Wayne | 6.2.11 @ 11:08AM
Maybe, maybe not. The race has hardly begun. I am fine with a Mormon running, but where do they get guys like Romney and Reid?
Bob K.| 6.2.11 @ 11:18AM
What he has proposed in his health care bill is nothing less that stateist economic fascism. I hope your church leaders call him in for counseling.
simon templar| 6.2.11 @ 2:41PM
Well, that is a nice divisive and threatening comment. He will not get elected to dog catcher without that evangelical and tea party movement. That is the reality, face it. You might want to play nice if you want this to happen.
Wayne | 6.2.11 @ 11:06AM
Not a Romney fan, but I am a fan of states rights and that is a discussion we need to have.
Bob K.| 6.2.11 @ 11:09AM
He believes in the power of the "state" as opposed to the power of the "people" as a concept of government. This is the true economic definition of Fascism as defined here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
We now use the term as a pejorative to describe all manners of despots and the societies they run but it really fits in Romney's case.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.2.11 @ 12:17PM
Folks,
here is my only problem with Mormons: The idiots think they are "Gods in embryo"!
Honestly! One of their core beliefs is that if they have enough kids, they will run their own universes one day.
Uh... I will just be thrilled to sit at Jesus' feet... until He might give me another mission as a servant to Him.
I am not worthy to be a God.... and neither is any Mormon!
Casey Abell| 6.2.11 @ 12:38PM
Quin Hillyer CONTINUES to grind his caps lock key into dust at the mere mention of R-o-m-n-e-y. A PERVERSE reader might call this YELLING and even SMILE a little.
Get a grip, Quin. When the shouts start at every mention of Romney, it doesn't look good.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.2.11 @ 12:39PM
Romney is a God in embryo.
simon templar| 6.2.11 @ 2:44PM
Mountain Meadows.
BARBBF| 6.2.11 @ 3:07PM
I would prefer Ron Paul...but I will vote for and financially support Romney if he is the Republican nominee. I have no problem with him. He surely will be a millions times better than who we have in the WH now.
Oldefarte| 6.4.11 @ 10:55AM
Of the Republican candidates to date, Romney is last on my list [due to the reason Quin states, his/Massachusetts' Romneycare which is equal to Obama's WELFARECARE]. However, if by some freak accident of politics [ie that which occurred on 11/4/08.....REMEMBER?], Romney somehow becomes the Republican nominee, I will crawl on my hands and knees to my polling station to voter for him as opposed to El Chosen One, and I will do so because at least Romney offers the possible economic/financial survival and eventual progression of this country, as opposed to the snowball-rolling-downhill depression/destruction that we've headed towards under Chosen!!!!!!!!!!
tfgray| 6.6.11 @ 9:32PM
" This isn't an argument about constitutionality; it's an argument about First Principles"
...and the First Priciple of conservatism is:
"It's OK if we do it!"
see Cheney, Richard, "Deficits don't matter."