Would You Trust This Man As President?

Last night Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was kind enough to thank the diarists at Redstate.com for supporting his unfortunately failed efforts to rise to greater power in the GOP Senate Caucus. He wrote an excellent diary that laid out the choices us as a nation face in 2012. He describes this as Obama’s Economy vs. the Path to Prosperity.

The Obama Economy could also be metaphorically described as the living embodiment of modern “progressivism”. That is, Obama’s Economy and its attendant problems such as debt, regulatory overkill, and the profound disincentivization of volitional risk taking, is what you can expect when you impose anybody’s top-down, command-and-control solution on our current economic problems. The Path To Prosperity is a different road that involves an Aristotelian Mean between regulation and freedom. This will allow our most capable and productive minds to solve specific parts of our economic problems without the fear of a predatory regulatory state casting it’s baleful Eye of Sauron upon anything they do that deviates from accepted norms. The GOP Primaries offer us a similar choice of direction.

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Would You Trust This Man As President?

Last night Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was kind enough to thank the diarists at Redstate.com for supporting his unfortunately failed efforts to rise to greater power in the GOP Senate Caucus. He wrote an excellent diary that laid out the choices us as a nation face in 2012. He describes this as Obama’s Economy vs. the Path to Prosperity.

The Obama Economy could also be metaphorically described as the living embodiment of modern “progressivism”. That is, Obama’s Economy and its attendant problems such as debt, regulatory overkill, and the profound disincentivization of volitional risk taking, is what you can expect when you impose anybody’s top-down, command-and-control solution on our current economic problems. The Path To Prosperity is a different road that involves an Aristotelian Mean between regulation and freedom. This will allow our most capable and productive minds to solve specific parts of our economic problems without the fear of a predatory regulatory state casting it’s baleful Eye of Sauron upon anything they do that deviates from accepted norms. The GOP Primaries offer us a similar choice of direction.

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