Despite the stunning resurgence of conservative politicians after Obama and the Democrats swept the 2008 elections - all is not well for the conservative movement says an American Enterprise institute writer. Frankly I don't understand the conservative creed. I just don't "get" the preference for small government, for the private sector, etc. Effective appeals to me, efficient appeals to me. But I have no inherent preference on which serves us better - public or private. - GWC
Breakthrough Journal: Issue 2 : MODERNIZING CONSERVATISM:
Anti-government conservatism is ascendant. Republicans will likely retake the Senate and may take back the White House in 2012. The Tea Party is the most significant social movement since the anti-war movement of the late sixties. But, warns Steve Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute in an article for the Fall/Winter issue of theBreakthrough Journal, conservatives have plenty of reason to worry. The 50-year libertarian project to shrink the welfare state is a manifest failure. Government is bigger than ever. Tax cuts didn't "starve the beast" -- for decades, the evidence shows, they grew it. What is a serious conservative to do? Rethink everything.
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