Bob’s take on the failures of conservatism

Bob’s take on the failures of conservatism
Posted On Bob Barr's website

July 27th, 2008 by Jason Pye

A blogger at Netroots Nation asked Bob if conservative values have failed. He replied, “To me, what has utterly failed in the traditional conservative movement is any understanding of or respect for true individual liberty and our constitutional system of government, which was designed expressly to provide protection for individual liberty.”

The blogger then asked about family values. Bob replied, “Family values are part and parcel of the same notion of individual liberty. Where you have a Federal government, or in the cases of many of our state governments, state governments that want to tell individual citizens or the Federal government to override the decisions of the citizens.”

Bob offered an example, “[I]f the citizens of a particular state wish to legalize medicinal marijuana, or to change the definition of marriage in their state, why should the Federal government have any right, if in fact if it respects individual liberty and individual conservative values, have any power have any power to come in and override the position of the people of the state. Yet that’s what we have in Washington. That’s not conservatism. That’s big government.

A full transcript can be found here. Video of the exchange is below.

 

 

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