Alexandra has smacked another homer with her post sewing together the snake-wiggling controversy happening in the blogosphere over Professor Jeffrey Hart’s article in the Wall Street Journal which pretty much denigrates conservatives as half-wits.

I know there are a lot of people out there who are quick to paint with broad partisan brush strokes after hearing my individual stances on political and social issues, but I’ve really tried to step back from that because I’ve ostracized and lost a few good friends by holding their feet to the wrong fire when it came to a few heated political debates.

Nietzsche once said that no true thinking man could ever belong to a political party for very long because they would eventually think themselves right out of it. I absolutely believe this is the case.

I am a registered Independent voter but I am not a middle of the road walker. I discuss politics based on my core value, which is this: Every human being is inherently free to purse their own vision of happiness provided that this pursuit does not infringe upon the life or property of another citizen. All laws should originate from this and government should derive its power from this philosphical mindset. Any time the law or the government steps out of the business of preventing lives or property from being infringed upon by others, it has become a tyranny.

This is the paradigm from which I operate my life and from which all my actions, attitudes, and teachings that I share with my children and my reading audience come from. I think of this political viewpoint as humane common sense.

The bottom line is that we live in a world of inequality and scarce resources which have to be allocated to their most efficient uses and I believe that this efficient allocation is driven by the pure force of human will and desire. But I also know that there are evil minds and hearts in this world and that is why we need a strong rule book (The Constitution) which we stick to in all matters and a powerful but sensible firearm at arm’s reach in case one of these evil minds steps out of line.

And that doesn’t mean I always throw in with the administration because whatever you consider conservativism to be, the Bush administration is about the farthest thing from it. I’d say it’s more of a Corporatism, double-speaking using conservative key words like tax cuts and small-business owners all the while allowing the biggest spending spree in the nation’s history to happen under a supposedly conservative Congress more ineffectual and pointless than testicles on the Pope.

If thinking like this makes me an intellectually inferior idiot to those in the blue states, then they can wipe their asses with their Ivy League diplomas and fake-ass sympathy driven by weakness of heart and misplaced guilt. The heart of the true conservative is made of sterner stuff and doesn’t deflate from accusations of being too strong-willed and not open-minded enough. There comes a point where if your mind is too open, it will fall out and the lunatic who holds their folded faces to floor when everyday the paperboy brings more begins to run the asylum.

If you want weakness of character in your country, look anywhere but the United States–here we make mistakes we’re only too proud to claim and correct; all the rest is recycled and boring fodder for intellectuals to mull over in their fart-filled leather professor chairs.

So take that to Congress, sign it, seal it, and send it to the President.

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