[Dean's World] Dave Price: The Giuliani Primary Campaign In A Nutshell

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Posted by Dave Price:
The Giuliani Primary Campaign In A Nutshell
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1192954933.shtml


   Via [1]Glenn:

     âIsnât it better that I tell you what I really believe, instead of
     pretending to change all of my positions to fit the prevailing
     winds?â Mr. Giuliani asked, drawing murmurs of approval and
     applause from the audience.

   I don't know if he made the sale at this apparently pivotal
   convocation of social conservatives, but [2]this review sounds good.
   FWIW I'm not much of a social conservative myself; I support some
   limits on abortion (it's irrational to pretend passage out of a
   woman's body magically confers personhood and all attendant rights
   upon an individual) but not all, and I oppose prosecution of pretty
   much all victimless crimes. As with socialism, I respect much of what
   social conservatism tries to accomplish, but disagree with the means.
   A government can't plan a society's moral development any better than
   its economic development; the cost to our freedom, the pain of
   enforcement, and the unintended consequences outweigh the dubious
   benefit derived from forbidding consensual transactions between
   adults. Society functions most efficiently when individuals are
   essentially sovereign in their liberty, allowed to do whatever they
   like so long as they do no others harm. Sometimes those efficiencies
   are cruel, and expose the least attractive aspects of the human
   psyche, but the monopoly on force the state enjoys is a cudgel, not a
   scalpel, and is poorly suited to performing brain surgery.

References

   1. http://instapundit.com/archives2/010725.php
   2. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/politics/21values.html?ex=1350619200&en=f19de886601925d0&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink