Does The Choice Of Parties Really Make A Difference?
By: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Today is Monday April 19th and the start of a new week with all the promise, and disappointment it brings with it. The biggest disappointment of course is the American inability to find common ground from which to solve the problems of We The People. I am an avowed independent conservative and believe in the ideals expressed in the Jeffersonian field of political thought... IE: limited federal government, strict adherence to the constitution, and the sovereign rights of the several individual states. To this end I will argue the merits and rational premise on which Jefferson based his beliefs and arguments. I freely acknowledge that Jefferson was, in an historical reference, a liberal. In my view he was in fact a radical in that he believed in the supremacy of the individual and...