#86 — He’s also willing to invest/use statist methods to build necessary infrastructure which I’m skeptical of, and you as a Randian should find abhorrent.
I’m not a randian in any sense and I agree with Pournelle on this. Statism applied correctly is what gave us interstates and the modern Reagan legacy (the only superpower on the planet.) The GOP should embrace this.
Also, Pournelle blames the current Republican Party problems on Country Club Republicans.
You misread I think. Pournelle discusses “country club republicans” with the emphasis on fiscal conservatism, not bible thumping. And I agree with the building of the nuke plants. I agree with you though that this is part of a long term thinking process and ought not be the Maginot Line.
What we are talking about in this post is that Rick Moran is now joining the view that the fiscal sanity message of conservatism (and we’ll point out fiscal sanity is NOT necessarily the small government meme) is being poisoned by the social conservatives. Melissa’s screed here is pure social conservatism plus “smaller government” which as I have pointed out doesn’t even exist (and never did.)
It’s not a matter of “those nasty christians” at all; it’s a matter of having them dictate terms. Not going to happen. The schools are graduating a million kids a yer. Few are what you would call conservatives. Letting the far right social conservatives (who want to invoke their own form of statism) run things is mathematical suicide (among other things.)
