Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Really?
This morning I heard one of the sports radio blowhards over at ESPN describe himself as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative." I've actually heard that buzzing around for a while now. I understand the desire to take the best attributes of our fractured two party system and create an a la carte political stance that works for you, but aren't those two things really mutually exclusive?
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Not really. Call it what you want (Libertarianism, Classical Liberalism, Small Government), that's basically what he's describing.
A small government means less government spending (fiscal conservatism) and more personal freedosm (socially liberal).
Socially liberal is a broad term and I think we may be interpreting it differently in this case. I took it more as "I want to be viewed as compassionate, but I want to keep all of my money."
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