I Want the "No Ideas" Political Party
4 December 2006
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Re Sebastian Mallaby's "A Split in the GOP Tent" (Dec. 4):
I'm one of those libertarian who once felt less disgusted by Republicans than by Democrats. My reason was the same one that drew P.J. O'Rourke closer to the elephants than to the asses: Republicans had fewer ideas than Democrats. Those of us who fear political power prefer that such power, if it exists, be not in the hands of ambitious visionaries but in laps of lazy dim-wits.
But now that the GOP is flush with ideas on how to uplift society, both here and abroad, both political parties disgust me equally.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Re Sebastian Mallaby's "A Split in the GOP Tent" (Dec. 4):
I'm one of those libertarian who once felt less disgusted by Republicans than by Democrats. My reason was the same one that drew P.J. O'Rourke closer to the elephants than to the asses: Republicans had fewer ideas than Democrats. Those of us who fear political power prefer that such power, if it exists, be not in the hands of ambitious visionaries but in laps of lazy dim-wits.
But now that the GOP is flush with ideas on how to uplift society, both here and abroad, both political parties disgust me equally.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday August 17, 2007 at 2:50pm