and as a note, as a conservative/independent hybrid myself, I don’t simply ballyhoo what we have representing us as any sort of role model for conservatism by any means. I remember when was Perot was around in 88-’92 or so, even the Republican party was touting core issues such as: a flat tax, term limits for congress, line item veto, and a balanced budget-probably the last time we came anywhere near ‘changing’ anything. The general populous was supported of this, and books that were braking down government waste and the budget in detail were flying off shelves.
Of course, after Perot was out of the race, you never heard another thing about it. If Jack Kemp had run a better campaign, who knows…I was not a Perot fan overall, but the idea of running the government budget as if it were an accountable business being prominent in the public mind was the last time I saw any idea for ‘change’ in modern politics. Until they can restructure our campaign funding system in the first place, we’re never going to have a politician in any high office who isn’t already bought and paid for.
