A couple of recent polls throw heaps of cold water on the claims of liberals that conservative values are in the minority in this country and that most of us really want big-government solutions to all our problems.
First, and most relevant to recent events:
Saturday’s shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in which six people were killed, could not have been prevented, 40 percent of American voters say in a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. Another 23 percent blame the mental health system, while 15 percent say it was due to heated political rhetoric and 9 percent attribute the tragedy to lax gun control.
Got that? 15 percent. That’s nearly 1 in 7. I’d call that a landslide, especially in light of the monstrous (in more ways than one) effort by liberals, Democrats and the media to convince us otherwise.
Second, again a landslide:
Some 71 percent of those surveyed oppose increasing the borrowing authority, the focus of a brewing political battle over federal spending. Only 18 percent support an increase.
Nothing more dramatically shows the effect the Tea Party movement has had on the way Americans view big government than those findings.
Increasingly, Americans are coming to learn that this is not a liberal, left or progressive country. Most Americans are sensible, hard-working, God-fearing, compassionate people who don’t want government telling them how to spend their money. They don’t mind paying taxes, but not so that others don’t have to work for their food and shelter like most of us do. They believe in a safety net, but not one that shelters people from cradle to grave and saps the initiative from able-bodied people. And they want government to limit itself to the things government is supposed to do, and quit trying to engineer society into some semblance of a left-wing academic’s dream.
It’s pretty simple.
