The Hollywood liberalatti is fond of saying that if X candidate is elected president, they’ll move to France. Fine (though Alec Baldwin once gave me the finger when I asked him what he was still doing here). But what shall we lovers of liberty do if, come next November, we are faced with the possibility of having presidential candidates from both major parties who clearly have no understanding of this country’s founding principles? To wit, here’s one of Hillary Clinton’s latest sound bites on health care:
“We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all that mean to a mother or father who can’t take a sick child to the doctor?”
Iowa-leading Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, “combines pure moralism with incoherent populism: He wants Washington to impose a nationwide ban on smoking in public, show more solicitude for Americans of modest means and impose more protectionism, thereby raising the cost of living for Americans of modest means.” (Hat tip: George Will.)
In other words, on the one hand we can forget about Jefferson and Madison and on the other hand we can turn their republic into an anti-market nanny state.
Given that choice, we’re left with another one: Estonia or New Zealand?
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