“His “solutions” offer more government intervention in our lives – anathema to the conservative – and he speaks openly of redistributing wealth. Now these might appeal to you, and you will cast your vote accordingly.”
This is a joke right? Conservatives against government intervention in our lives? Yeah right. Oh they pay lip service to this notion, but in practice? No. Ever hear of McCarthyism? It Flourished under Eisenhower. Consider the war against chronic pain patients in this country exacerbated by Nixon’s “War on Drugs” which saw the establishment of a LE agency that regularly intrudes itself upon the doctor-patient relationship and de facto makes medical care decisions that harm some patients: the DEA (whose establishment also gutted the 4th amendment), I also think that the continued assault on Roe v Wade which guarentees a woman’s right to privacy vis a vis her reproductive decisions is an obvious intervention into a citizen’s private life; as well as the Bush policy to pursue those State Laws they don’t agree with: Medical Marijuana, Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” Law despite, yet again, declaring that State’s Rights is a Conservative position. And don’t even get me started on secret surveillance of Americans without warrent, and other liberty limiting parts of the so called “Patriot Act.”
As for “redistribution of wealth” what a bunch of nonsense, our system works on a progressive tax system and has done so since 1913. The mandate has always been economic fairness. Bush was able to tilt the system to favor those in the 1% tax bracket at the expense of the other 99% of American tax payers (even McCain commented on the unfairness of the Bush tax cuts when he voted No on them initally, that is before he realized that honesty in this matter was a losing proposition with his “base”); Obama is only proposing a return to the parity upon which the tax code was based. By the way, we should stop whining about our taxes, the top tax brackets have paid as much as 90% in certain years since 1913; even in 1954 the wealthy were paying 50%.
