There is a growing... branch... or whatever in the Republican Party... who don't want to hear anything about, let's say, the traditional values issues, who say those are not important, we shouldn't be talking about those, we only want to talk about cutting taxes and reducing government, but the truth is we cant cut taxes and reduce government without also understanding that a lot of the costs of government are directly related to the breakdown of the family and individual responsibility. So if we just say that we are going to arbitrarilly cut things, how many police do we take off the streets, how many people do we let out of prison beds. The point is, if we focus on both the cutting of taxes, the fiscal issues, as well as personal responsibility, families growing up, building kids of character, than you dont have as many people that you have to put in jail, you dont have as many drug and alcohol counselors, and so my point about the faux cons is that I think there is a real need to realize that these are not incompatible goals. Frankly, most values conservatives I know are also fiscal conservatives. But there are some who are strictly economic conservatives, who are social liberals, who believe in legalized drugs, who don't want to talk about anything such as the sanctity of life, or traditional marriage, that's where I think the discussion has to happen.
