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Brent Buckner

Do you have a convenient overall assessment of her public record to point that provides strong evidence that relative to other Republican politicians she is more supportive of gubmnt intervention? If so, please do provide the link(s). Thanks!

EclectEcon

I don't. But the point I was trying to make is that the Republican party (along with Sarah Palin) seems to have drifted away from its small gubmnt ideals.

Brent Buckner

I agree that the politicians in the Republican party have drifted away from its small gubmnt ideals (which weren't always part of the party ideals).

I don't really know whether or not Sarah Palin's public record is more or less interventionist than the average Republican politician, so I'm hesitant to characterize support for her as more or less interventionist. Perhaps your wish would mean the fading from the scene of a relatively *less* interventionist Republican politician.

Matthew

Lets hope your prediction is correct. Though, I have to admit, watching Palin drive my sophisitcated urban liberal friends to apoplexy was priceless.

As for the size of government issue, I think the main reason the Republicans, and the Harper Conservatives for that matter, have stopped being for small government is because parties, when in power, have an interest in using the apparatus of the state to their advantage. I think they began to realize this in the post-war years when government got really big. Smaller government means fewer ribbons for politicians to cut. There is probably a decent political science thesis in there somewhere.

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