As someone who supported the Republican Party as a teen and who has never voted for a Democrat for any major office, the question above would seem like an easy one to answer. But my beliefs were always along the lines of a very small and focused government, only doing the core jobs that a federal government should do (defense, foreign policy, maintaining a level playing field in an otherwise open market, providing basic consumer support, etc.). This included keeping government out of our private lives.
But the Republican Party has moved away from these beliefs over the years, first with their dreadful alliance with the ugly Religious Right groups, and the last 8 Bush years have shattered all claims to small government conservatism. Is there any hope that we can again hear a top-ranking Republican rage against Obama's massive governmental increases and wonder why we didn't hear anything from them last year, or the one before, or the one before, going back through the whole decade?
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