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« The 16th Amendment | Main | Yawn » February 25, 2005CPAC and libertarianismITA hasn't covered the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) much at all. It is, I must admit, a fairly big deal when you consider the long list of attendees. It is the oldest and most significant gathering of grassroots conservatives. It's a place where agendas are set, ideas are debated, and alliances are often formed. Despite all of this it has never interested me much. To me it seems more like a place where twenty-somethings go to be seen, and thinkers and politicos go to build name recognition. Picture ambitious folks standing around exchanging business cards. In essence, it seems like a big publicity stunt for everyone involved. But because it's an important gathering of activists and leaders, it can, on occassion, serve as a weather vane for conservative/Republican issues. This year a considerable amount of bloggers attended CPAC, including famed libertarian Radley Balko. CPAC is over now, and Balko wraps-up his experience in a piece at Tech Central Station that looks at the state of limited government in the conservative movement. According to Balko, there is still hope for limited government in the Right's ideology. Posted by Joshua Claybourn at February 25, 2005 12:28 PM CommentsPosted by: wahoofive at February 25, 2005 12:57 PM | permalink Yet somehow the Republicans find the relatively young, wholesome conservative Christians to actually have power in the party and the Republicans that Balko speaks of vote for them. There's a guy who fits that bill as "my" state senator. His two big initiatives so far are to ban all cloning including anything that could be used for stem cell research and a bill to attempt to tax all "adult" businesses out of existence as well as set many other rules regulating them that would finish the job. The first would drive a major new research institute in Kansas City into doing all expansion in other states (if not just leaving completely) and the second is guaranteed to be appealed and eliminated on a First Amendment basis, especially that bright boy has admitted in public that shutting them down is his real goal. How many tax dollars will be wasted trying to defend that monstrosity if it makes it into law? |
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