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This week we offer a double feature; two perspectives on the defection of

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter from the Republican to the Democratic

Party.

**A Specter No Longer Haunts the Republican
Party<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp9c2co3FZ7MkPHNjDNzxXgQDpxuRsHYnc5vUD1mxRN_6K8bB2pZ0cDRM32NB5H3tb5G3y4LrlfvkVhjZ7okpLxTVhKgDYdiyaLvnmfXheqv1OquCUQCzwBwq3EPwbFbIMO2GyTJEuaom_yzq4EG7U6UzCQToPaNUNw=>
*
by Edward Hudgins

Specter's party switch has left Republicans with mixed feelings; rage that
he is probably handing the Democrats a filibuster-proof Senate at this
critical political juncture and relief that they're rid of a RINO
(Republican In Name Only) who has often been at odds with the majority of
Republicans on crucial issues.

Some think the lesson of Specter's defection is that the Republicans need to
become more moderate. But "moderate" isn't the issue. Read Hudgins's
argument
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp9c2co3FZ7MkPHNjDNzxXgQDpxuRsHYnc5vUD1mxRN_6K8bB2pZ0cDRM32NB5H3tb5G3y4LrlfvkVhjZ7okpLxTVhKgDYdiyaLvnmfXheqv1OquCUQCzwBwq3EPwbFbIMO2GyTJEuaom_yzq4EG7U6UzCQToPaNUNw=>about
why the Republicans should become more consistent and principled in their
defense of freedom.


**A Specter of Small
Government?<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp9L3fbc_URiMH6gykIYbUmaOh0M_z2lhNCuzZJs5XFxOoddox7f2QM9x7GfV-f3B9R6C7io6gqd-4vUcypTTABuOWBedE6AHRG8mky_TAmrSRhxeDYjCHEBEAw_TR7weFQi_49lVevJ5Oq0h0gKwcCdcWdSJmxkXMA=>
* By William Thomas

Specter might have been a moderate Republican but he did hold some
limited-government Republican views that put him at odds with Democrats. Now
he carries those views to the Democratic Party.

William Thomas asks<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp9L3fbc_URiMH6gykIYbUmaOh0M_z2lhNCuzZJs5XFxOoddox7f2QM9x7GfV-f3B9R6C7io6gqd-4vUcypTTABuOWBedE6AHRG8mky_TAmrSRhxeDYjCHEBEAw_TR7weFQi_49lVevJ5Oq0h0gKwcCdcWdSJmxkXMA=>,
if "moderate" Republicans could marry a pro-business, traditionalist
ideology with noblesse oblige, economic regulation, and growing entitlement
programs, why can't economically literate Democrats wed their own
paternalism and egalitarianism to a recognition that bureaucracies are
inefficient, taxes aren't donations, and regulations restrict individual
autonomy?


*From the Archives
*
Appropriate for this week we offer two pieces relevant to Republican Party
woes:

**Back to the Future?<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp8qYRX9yb8bG4Hv8NtAIpWrF_E4vq7GsDxNLe_u0ts2YOmry_4n31Klc8uZQnqyF73eqVBaAr295EjiMqkNU9bWhqY_4xyZCzgCp60P5eKG2XQ4LE9VPTCq-uOxg9aqnMxeR4Q-OMNVtsc8F2GEeVRb>
*
By Robert Bidinotto

In his 2006 book *The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and
the Battle to Control the Republican Party*, Ryan Sager discusses the
importance of as well as conflicts between two factions in the Republican
Party. But Bidinotto
argues<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp8qYRX9yb8bG4Hv8NtAIpWrF_E4vq7GsDxNLe_u0ts2YOmry_4n31Klc8uZQnqyF73eqVBaAr295EjiMqkNU9bWhqY_4xyZCzgCp60P5eKG2XQ4LE9VPTCq-uOxg9aqnMxeR4Q-OMNVtsc8F2GEeVRb>that
Sager misses the fact that most Republicans accepted the altruistic
and
other philosophical premises of the Democrats and that this is why the GOP
is cracking up.

**The Battle for the Soul of the Republican
Party<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp_JirSkGZqIazyHIV5gCMgwhp8_dEBHlH3ufzbcf5gP0Tz-d_-HamM-ZB5qSjdWOnd0re0ZKQgYY4ny3FXbOxBU2NXTIlPVbn2nwbkdNXYiZhRiuH1FbhaouCpPswI05U8dFACSbfnTQ8oEn1s2GT3w>
*

By Edward Hudgins

Just before the Republican loss of Congress in the 2006 election, Hudgins
warned what the results would be of the GOP's drift from the limited
government, pro-freedom philosophy of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to
the "compassionate conservative," and "me-too" big spending policies of
George W. Bush. Hudgins called
it<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp_JirSkGZqIazyHIV5gCMgwhp8_dEBHlH3ufzbcf5gP0Tz-d_-HamM-ZB5qSjdWOnd0re0ZKQgYY4ny3FXbOxBU2NXTIlPVbn2nwbkdNXYiZhRiuH1FbhaouCpPswI05U8dFACSbfnTQ8oEn1s2GT3w>and
you can read about the lessons that are relevant today.


*Kelley, Hudgins To Speak at Free Minds '09
Conference!<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp-c4rdZNgHZkB9n1UTWtSD3Uai8kVaad_OTgeIM2u_3cAFc8ZDzRvrKeKMEF1FU6ZDkHt2THrx66tLEmtEjMdLFdohzfTpC72hty1A9QSAHRw==>
*

Reason and freedom are under attack and in crisis worldwide.

Our friends Fred Stitt and Kate Herrick have organized FreeMinds
'09<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp-c4rdZNgHZkB9n1UTWtSD3Uai8kVaad_OTgeIM2u_3cAFc8ZDzRvrKeKMEF1FU6ZDkHt2THrx66tLEmtEjMdLFdohzfTpC72hty1A9QSAHRw==>,
a great summer event that will allow you to learn what can and will be done
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Objectivism.

Speakers will include Dr. David Kelley and Dr. Edward Hudgins from The Atlas
Society. Also on the program are Nathaniel Branden, Robert Poole of Reason,
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The event will be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 30 -
July 8, 2009.

Register now for major discounts, half-week options, and low-cost housing.

The April 30 discount deadline shown on the Free Minds '09 web site has been
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See for">www.FREEMINDS09.orgfor
details and enrollment information.


*Why on Earth... Are So Many Americans
Uninsured?<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp_1dRSt4CGdT7h4LNDMc2zllUQSbIcWoVrpwdLN3-Of7Tx0M4yay2apPvvr9wWnzst4_wNTqCgnAUPcBJQDlvWv2UPP5NPh7W9B1e2xlnOzLMp7qIYc7PuRwPNxulxRxCGHHWjnlRPKWdrhXqGPygGF>
*
by Bradley Doucet

Brad tells us that, "As Congress returns from spring recess and gets to work
hammering out a health care reform bill, that dreaded statistic is in the
news again: 46 million Americans have no health insurance. Like many scary
numbers the press serves up every day, this one needs to be examined with a
skeptical eye. In reality, the situation is not quite as bad as it is made
to appear."

Read Brad's<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102568175537&s=14360&e=001G0ahUZ_kDp_1dRSt4CGdT7h4LNDMc2zllUQSbIcWoVrpwdLN3-Of7Tx0M4yay2apPvvr9wWnzst4_wNTqCgnAUPcBJQDlvWv2UPP5NPh7W9B1e2xlnOzLMp7qIYc7PuRwPNxulxRxCGHHWjnlRPKWdrhXqGPygGF>incisive
analysis.

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