Conservative blogger Joe Guarino’s endorsements for the Greensboro City Council here; mainstream N&R’s here; conservative-alt Rhino’s here; liberal-alt Yes! Weekly’s here.
JLF does not endorse political candidates; however, I can pass along Cmdr. Hood’s distinction between the liberal and the conservative minds:
In the liberal imagination, conservatives oppose excessive government taxes and regulations on business because of their unwarranted faith in the competence, nobility, and perfect knowledge of business executives.
As with so many other figments of the liberal imagination, this image may tell you something about how liberals think but it tells you nothing about how conservatives think. In reality, conservatives oppose excessive government taxes and regulations because we know full well that many business executives are incompetent, ignoble, and ignorant – and that politicians and regulators, being fellow human beings, are equally likely to be incompetent, ignoble, and ignorant.
That is, modern-day conservatives don’t believe that free markets produce perfection. We believe that human perfection is impossible, and that attempts by very-human central planners to engineer such perfection are likely to produce worse results than free markets do.
If you see anyone running for Greensboro City Council that fits the latter description, have at it. Personally, I’m still looking. Most disappointing is the fact that nobody —save perhaps District 5 incumbent Trudy Wade —- stands up and states the serial waste of taxpayers’ money —on DOE grants, on risky loans for shopping centers, on a pay hike for an interim city manager, etc. etc…. is just plain wrong.
