Is Small Government Not a Conservative Value Anymore? | Godfather Politics

Is Small Government Not a Conservative Value Anymore? | Godfather Politics.

I am not going to argue with Tony Perkins about his discounting the results of his own poll at the Value Voter Summit, organized by Perkins’s own organization, the Family Research Council. If Perkins believes his organization is not able to represent the majority of socially conservative Americans in its events, then so be it, I will agree with him. I actually thought about it four years ago when Mitt Romney won the same poll. I just couldn’t see how socially conservative Americans can have the same values with a Mormon who is also big-government proponent, pro-high-taxes, sponsored by Goldman Sachs (the same Goldman Sachs that is also the biggest sponsor for Obama) and is the original architect of what today is known as Obamacare. In one way or another, Perkins and I came to the same conclusion about the Family Research Council: It has outlived its ability to live up to its purpose.

Perkins’s dislike for the results of his own poll aside, I disagree with something Perkins said after he discounted the results of the poll. He first said that Ron Paul didn’t represent the values of the socially conservative Americans. Well, I have no sufficient information about the values of those socially conservative Americans; Perkins does. May be he is right, may be he isn’t, who knows.

But then, Perkins said the following:

We should not discount there’s a lot of discontent with big ineffective government that’s taking place in this country, and I think the Ron Paul campaign reflects that. The message of his campaign is sending is something other campaigns have to listen to as well.

There are two big problems with this statement, and with the context of the statement.