Comments on: NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE: The Limited-Government Big Tent

By: George

George — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:34:08 +0000

Correcting Jim’s attribution to Scott Rasmussen:
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution … or have failed their purpose… or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ ‘interests,’ I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can.” – Barry Goldwater

If I and others had been smarter in 1964 we would have voted for Barry Goldwater and we might not be in our present socialist pickle.

By: Jim Steichen

Jim Steichen — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:52:46 +0000

“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient,
for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I
propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is
not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the
Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an
unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation
is ‘needed’ before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally
permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents
‘interests,’ I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is
liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.”

These are not my words, they belong to Scott Rasmussen (as far as I know).

First, we demand that the following amendment be added
to the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law abridging the
freedom of Production and Trade.”

By: peterverkooijen

peterverkooijen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:19:40 +0000

As long as you promote yourself as “conservative”, the Obamacrats are still going to win. Breakdown of the American electorate:

30% socialists, progressives, fake “liberals”
30% classic liberals, moderates, libertarians
40% conservatives, including libertarians

50-60% wants nothing to do with conservatism and will still vote for the “liberal” if the choice is conservative vs liberal.

Please make this about liberty vs socialism! Stop let yourself get pushed into the corner as a “conservative movement”.

By: Dennis Gadbois

Dennis Gadbois — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:05:55 +0000

I’ve never attended a Tea Party (usually working) but I passionately support what you are doing. Big gov must be stopped. Thank you for all you do.