Written by: Goemagog

PuppyDrinker once again shows a lack of contact with reality, as he links to and quotes two fundamentally opposite claims.

He agrees with Balloon Juice (whom this illustrious blog pushed into last place during the webblog awards) that the republican party is abandoning much of it's core ideology.

He also posts an e-mail excerpt claiming that Bush is "an ultra-right wing conservative"..

It's hard to call Romney an ultra-right wing conservative in the vein of Pres. Bush

With the exception of a few hot-button issues on which the press disagrees with him (primarily foreign policy and abortion), Bush has been pretty staunchly planted next to Clinton on the political spectrum, maybe even a little to his left.

Will we ever have republican leadership that isn't just a pro-life democrat in disguise? Probably not, because most republican ideology is centered on either leaving people up to their own devices or governing based on some consensus of new testament guidance. Religious fervor doesn't preclude socialist policies, so it's really not a reason to call someone right-wing, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton both claim to be ministers of religion and nobody is calling them "ultra-right wing".

That leaves libertarianism, which has been mostly chucked aside by this administration and many of it's predecessors. Even "Anarchists", who are theoretically against government controls invariably support not just government controls but complete abolition of individual freedom, purpose, and meaning.

Why?

It's the problem of corruption. The same reason third-world countries never get better. Nobody wants to fix the problem if they can benefit from it. Nobody wants to be free if being un-free gives them a chance to control someone else. The people who are best positioned to stop bribery are the same ones getting bribed. Voters don't want Congressmen to vote against wasteful projects, they want the wasteful projects in their neighborhoods.

Both power and money corrupt people, and most people will support continuing corruption if they believe they will gain power or money from it. The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party will promise you anything you want. The Democratic Party will do the same, and increasingly so for the Republican Party.

The right-wing is the territory of conservatives. What American conservatism is about conserving is personal liberty, making libertarianism the ultimate conservative ideal in the United States. Balloon Juice is correct in that Bush and the Republican Party are not conservative, and this prevents them from being right-wing.

In other news, Hillary Clinton asserts that the Republican Party wants "absolute power". So she wants what they want? Does that make "absolute power" a 'moderate' position?

The PuppyDrinker thinks so.

Goe, against corruption.