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Lets get the federal government out of the realm, thats one of the objections with roe v. wade, it federalized the issue as opposed to keeping it at the state level. >> by preventing the states from doing it, you prevented the state from being involved in monitoring every fertilized state in the country. >> again, thats a federal intervention. and there isnt a party who object to that. >> okay. >> just put that there. >> you get my point, though. a big intrusive state government is still a big i...

Of the things youre saying. >> tell me. >> just on two points very broadly. number one, with respect to the abortion question in particular. both ron paul and rick santorum, their objection, where they agree, is at the federal level. they dont want to grow government to get involved in that. they would actually like to move it back to the states and have the states decide these issues on a state-by-state basis which is more consistent with what republicans have argued. lets get the federal gover...

It federalized the issue as opposed to keeping it at the state level. >> by preventing the states from doing it, you prevented the state from being involved in monitoring every fertilized state in the country. >> again, thats a federal intervention. and there isnt a party who object to that. >> okay. >> just put that there. >> you get my point, though. a big intrusive state government is still a big intrusive state government. >> that big intrusive state government answers more directly to the p...

Number one, with respect to the abortion question in particular. both ron paul and rick santorum, their objection, where they agree, is at the federal level. they dont want to grow government to get involved in that. they would actually like to move it back to the states and have the states decide these issues on a state-by-state basis which is more consistent with what republicans have argued. lets get the federal government out of the realm, thats one of the objections with roe v. wade, it fed...

It federalized the issue as opposed to keeping it at the state level. >> by preventing the states from doing it, you prevented the state from being involved in monitoring every fertilized state in the country. >> again, thats a federal intervention. and there isnt a party who object to that. >> okay. >> just put that there. >> you get my point, though. a big intrusive state government is still a big intrusive state government. >> that big intrusive state government answers more directly to the p...

State level. >> by preventing the states from doing it, you prevented the state from being involved in monitoring every fertilized state in the country. >> again, thats a federal intervention. and there isnt a party who object to that. >> okay. >> just put that there. >> you get my point, though. a big intrusive state government is still a big intrusive state government. >> that big intrusive state government answers more directly to the people who elect those officials and have a way of saying ...

Culture war stuff. defund npr. have the federal government overrule gay marriage in washington, d.c., and of course, make abortion super difficult to get, even if you have to do it by raising taxes. the republican party post bush and post mccain has settled on an image that is small government, that has libertarian talking points at least, but that is now how they are acting. it is not what they are doing in politics. theres a great sort of ideological wobbliness at the heart of the republican p...