Limited Government Advocates Set For Historic Gains

Notice I didn't say "Republicans." I'll explain in a moment.

The Democratic Party will suffer a historic defeat this fall because only 20% of people in this nation are liberal. We get a distorted view of the power of liberals through the media and Hollywood because much of the creative class is (and will remain) liberal.

But a majority of voters didn't turn left in the last series of elections, they punished Republicans for not doing the things that voters expect them to do: cut taxes, limit spending, promote individual responsibility and liberty. The country remains center-right.

Due to the failure of Republicans being Republicans, a new activist has arisen--a person who promotes a specific ideology--not a party. These activists are using GOP primaries to punish establishment Republicans who failed to promote limited government. They'll vote Republican this fall, but continue to punish any candidate that does not live up to their expectations.

As to the effort at judicial recall--no one should fool themselves into thinking that judges don't have an ideology. But don't take my word for it: Shane Vander Hart found this quote from Thomas Jefferson:

To consider the Judges of the Superior Court as the ultimate Arbiters of Constitutional questions would be a dangerous doctrine which would place us under the despotism of oligarchy. They have with others, the same passion of party, for power, and for the privileges of their corps – and their power is more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the Elective control. The Constitution has elected no single Tribunal. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves,

Let's read that again: the ultimate powers of society rest with the people themselves. They give up some of that power to the government--but the government ALWAYS is accountable to the will of the people. That's why politics is the art of persuasion--not imposition. And whether you vote to retain a certain judge or not, the outcome does not threaten our Representative Republic. All branches of government are accountable to the power--who hold ALL the power and lend a limited amount of it to government.