Prominent Republicans see no evidence that their party's electoral
successes have advanced the cause of limited government and moral
governance.
"Today, our party's leaders act like thermometers
measuring the temperature of the electorate. We need to be the
thermostats and set the temperature," said Rob McCoy, pastor of Calvary
Chapel, a few minutes' drive from the Reagan presidential library in
Simi Valley, Calif.
For Republicans like Mr. McCoy, who is running
for a state Assembly seat, the national party has racked up decades of
compromises that have led to relentless government expansion,
ever-increasing spending growth, continually mounting national debt and
growing intrusiveness into the private lives of Americans.
From
her George Mason University's Mercatus Center office in Arlington, Va.,
economist Veronique de Rugy looks at the objective evidence of the
Republican Party's effect on limiting government.
"Every president
has spent more total real dollars in his last budget than in his
first," she said, noting that Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson increased
spending by 38 percent, but George W. Bush, twice elected on a
conservative Republican platform, increased spending by 53 percent
during his presidency.
"Even Reagan increased total spending by 22 percent" over President Carter, she says on her website.
Similar
disappointments are nagging at other conservatives as an expected
10,000 of them — nearly half college age — prepare to descend on
Washington for the 41st annual Conservative Political Action Conference
this week at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center.
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