American Exceptionalism - hoping it is more than a campaign slogan - Granite Grok

American Exceptionalism – hoping it is more than a campaign slogan

This caught my eye as one of the things that Romney said after announcing that Paul Ryan was to be his Veep pick:

“I love America. We’re going to restore American principles. We love this country. We don’t want to change it. We don’t want to transform it. We want to restore the principles of America that made us the hope of the earth.”

Again, I ask you, loyal reader, to compare that, going back to our Founders vision, to what Obama has said:

  • “We are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States”
  • “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

I am cautiously optimistically that the selection of Paul Ryan will be able to not just slide Romney to the Right (from the middle where he has historically been) but down to our roots of the Founders Vision.  Certainly, Paul Ryan willingly using John Locke on the campaign trail is encourating.  The “hang back” will be when they win (as I hope they do), will they translate the limited government campaign rhetoric to actually steer-bulldogging the Leviathan that the Federal government has become back to a more limited one that is actually good at a few enumerate functions instead of doing lots of stuff badly except for putting a free people into “Tyranny of the Regulators”?

 

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