As Peter Cresswell says (and as you can see for yourself at the end of the video), Dr. Brook received a standing ovation after speaking to the Republican Party of Virginia 2009 state convention. I agree with Peter, too, that Brook deserved it. Unfortunately, Republicans always cheer the language of liberty, and then come out cheering just as lustily for the next guy who promises to make prayer in schools mandatory, or get tough on which plants ought to be illegal, or to "save" Social Security, or to make war all over the globe.
While I agree with Yaron Brook about what America needs to do in order to right itself, and also with what the Republican Party needs to do in order to improve its electoral prospects and to help save the country, I am not as sanguine as he seems to be that anyone in the Republican Party will get serious about making any of it happen. Any of it. Certainly not any time soon.
I'm sorry, but there are still a lot of Mike Huckabees out there, and lots of fellow-traveling statists as well (John McCain, anyone? Rudy Giuliani?). Observe the recrudescence of the careers of Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove as "commentators" and ask yourself if it's not earlier than you think.
Anyway, Yaron Brook is right about what needs to be done, and Peter's right about how good the talk was.
(Hat tip: Peter Cresswell at Not PC)
Posted by Craig Ceely at June 13, 2009 01:45 PM