Re: Newt Changed His Mind and Fox Warns Henhouse Residents that They Are in Grave Danger (in which George Bush [of all people] talks about limited government and “the power of the free enterprise system”): This shows for the thousandth time that the GOP and the conservative movement are hopelessly mired in contradiction. The GOP is a lost cause. The Republican Revolution was a failure. Any attempt at reform is like trying to enter a dead horse in a race.
Mr. Rockwell’s words from a recent column should be reread very carefully:
4:00 pm on November 15, 2009Further, as Rothbard has forcefully argued, free-market capitalism serves no more than a symbolic purpose for the Republican Party and for conservatives. Economic liberty is the utopia that they keep promising to bring us, pending the higher priority of blowing up foreign peoples, jailing political dissidents, crushing the left wing on campus, and routing the Democrats. Once all of this is done, they say, then they will get to the instituting of a free-market economic system. Of course, that day never arrives, and it is not supposed to. Capitalism serves the Republicans the way Communism served Stalin: a symbolic distraction to keep you hoping, voting, and coughing up money.
