What "Freedom" and "Liberty" mean to the Republican Conservatives

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The Rise of Uncompassionate Conservatism
Bush would never make it in today’s GOP.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270103/rise-uncompassionate-conservatism-rich-lowry

The Republican noncandidate flavor of the week is Texas governor Rick Perry. If you squint just right, you could mistake him at a podium for his predecessor, George W. Bush. Except for his message.

There might be no more powerful symbol of the death of compassionate conservatism in the Republican party than Bush’s successor and former running mate in Texas stomping all over it with cowboy boots emblazoned with the words “Freedom” and “Liberty.”

Bush rose from Texas to the national stage in 1999 talking of his federal education agenda, the courage of single mothers, the power of drug and alcohol recovery programs, and the need for government to forge partnerships with faith organizations. Perry is emerging from Texas talking of the 10th Amendment, cutting government, defending freedom — and defending freedom some more.

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When Dubya Bush said we are returning the surplus to the American people through his tax cuts, turns out the "American people" who got the surplus were the Big Corporate Greed Money Bosses while 98% of us lost out big time in the 10+ years that followed.

When Sarah Palin and Ron Paul rail against Big Government and rave on about freedom and liberty, what they are really saying is that Big Corporate Greed Money Bosses need to be free of government so these Bosses can have the liberty to do what they want with the rest <98%> of us, as in BP, as in Goldman Sachs, as in Moody's etc etc etc. And in my humble opinion these Bosses are the bankrollers of the likes of Ms Palin and Mr Paul and, for that matter, the whole Tea Party- "Follow the Money!"

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1. Freedom, Liberty, Family, God.

Four words that have been tainted forever by right-wing nutjobs.

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3. Especially No. 2

I rarely hear the wingnuts say "freedom" these days, but they're positively obessed with "liberty." And "tyranny."

[Doctor_J]

2. Bush definitely would make it today

He is a mean, dogmatic idiot, just like the rest. It figures the Nationalist Review would try to rehab Too Stupid To Be President.