Herman Cain: I’d scrap the EPA and start over

Of course not, that’s not the issue. The issue is trying to pick a candidate that will cut through the bull and level with the people. Rick Perry is the perfect example of what not to do. Call Social Security a ponzi scheme one day (true), then the next day say we have a “sacred pledge” (bull) just isn’t good enough. Better to tell the truth now when people are desperate enough to listen.

Actually, if you were paying enough attention, he ran on more then just ACA. He ran for single payer and has since he went into state/national politics. He hid it in his televised speeches, but his fundraisers and rally’s that were “under the radar” he very much ran on it. It was out there, but the vetting was not done by the american people. To intentionally leave out a lynchpin in your own political intentions to bring it up after the election is unethical, and would never be forgiven by our side, much less middle america. Just because Liberals do not care, does not mean we can be so cavalier about it.

I’ve been thinking about this question you bought up for yourself. When it comes to government trajectory, we as American’s often look at symptoms rather than the cause. Only public, and private virtue are capable of maintaining small limited government. This is an axiom that cannot be dismissed as lofty. It is much broader than simply electing people who believe in such things. It must be practiced by most freely, and consistantly. This all boils down to ethics both public, and private. The free market cannot sustain itself if actors are constantly taking advantage of the institution. Just because something isn’t illegal doesn’t make it ethical, nor moral whether one believes in a god, or not. Good citizens would report unethical practice, or loopholes in law to their representatives, but if ones representative is unethical him, or herself, you may have just given more opportunity for a vulenrability a law, or lack there of to be exploited on a grander scale. It requires good citizenship by everyone to keep things ethical, and free. Ethical people don’t slaughter all the whales, and strip the forest clean. In the free market good people don’t take advantage of their employee’s, nor do risk takers create finanical instruments that undermine the market place etc.. Do you see where I’m coming from? The atmosphere in today’s Amerca is so corrupted by lack of virtue, that American’s are living within an institution compensating for lack of ethics, and moral grounding. This causes further inbalance between limited government, and authoritarianism. Authoritarianism by its very nature forces one size fits all obedience, the antitheses of liberty.