Liberal Talk Radio

Take out the fire & brimstone social conservative b.s. (which, admittedly, a goodly number of so-cons espouse but in our McCainiastic ideal future ceases to exist [silly also because I don't think McCain is even who we think he is]) and conservatives begin to look a lot like you and me, as the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Chris Satullo explains in the ten things he’s learned from conservatives:

1. “Change doesn’t necessarily equal progress. I’ve lost the glib faith of some liberals that the world just keeps getting better and more enlightened. Conservatives are right to insist on suspicion of novelty and respect for legacies.”
2. “If you tax something, you get less of it. If you tax something less, you get more of it. An obvious point, really, but if more Democratic politicians understood it, you wouldn’t see such abominations as Philadelphia’s tax structure, which punishes supermarkets, entrepreneurs and high-tech innovators.”
3. “Capitalism is the best engine ever invented for creating wealth and innovation.”
4. “Markets are smarter than governments. . . . Governments should do what they’re good at: promoting and preserving the public goods (e.g., education, health care, and rule of law) that help markets flourish.”
5. “Follow the Yellow Pages Rule. Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith invented this. If he went to the Yellow Pages and saw a full page of private-sector providers for a service his city paid its employees to provide, he’d ask whether City Hall really needed to be in that business.”
6. “Some people who lose jobs not only survive, they thrive. . . . Those times when a pink slip turns out to be a lucky break ought to get more attention. Then government might waste less money trying to save lost-cause businesses.”
7. “Government workers sometimes are a huge obstacle to good government. . . . Liberals too often fall for public unions’ skill at dressing up a refusal to change as a defense of the rights of the oppressed.”
8. “Kids in failing urban schools deserve vouchers - today.”
9. “The use of military power sometimes saves lives. . . . (Think: Kosovo.)”
10. “The framers really did fear the power of a national government.”

Now that I think about it, it all sounds very Professorial, almost Brunotopian — but what’s he got against public servant unions? Just kidding! What don’t we all have against public servant unions?!