Dear Editor, I was quite amused with Lisa Pampuch
’s column on wearing the liberal label with pride. I am a proud
to call myself a conservative, and my problem with her reasons for
being a liberal is that she makes too many erroneous assumptions.
Her first mistake is that we live in a republic not a
democracy.
Dear Editor,
I was quite amused with Lisa Pampuch’s column on wearing the liberal label with pride. I am a proud to call myself a conservative, and my problem with her reasons for being a liberal is that she makes too many erroneous assumptions.
Her first mistake is that we live in a republic not a democracy. They are distinctively different in nature. In a democracy the popular vote rules, where as in a republic, such as ours, the rights of the minority are protected from the whims of the majority through a representative government. It was set up with checks and balances and changes happen slowly though legislation not through court rulings.
Pampuch talks about privacy when in fact there is no right to privacy in the Constitution. It is true that some Supreme Court justices wrote a convoluted opinion and came up with the right to privacy, and that is why liberals are fighting so hard to keep certain people off the Supreme Court. They know that if reasonable people were put on the court this would be overturned.
If you look at our history, very few Supreme Court rulings have been overturned by later Supreme Courts. That is because most decisions are based on fact and not myth. However, in the past few decades there seems to be more myth than fact that goes in to many of the rulings issued by the Supreme Court.
I believe in the Constitution and what is says. I do not need to continually rewrite it through bogus court rulings to fit my current wants or whims. The founders of this great republic pledged their lives and their fortunes to establish a country of limited government. Somewhere along the way liberals have forgotten that.
They continually push for more government and want to take what someone has earned and give it to someone else who they feel needs it more, or confer special rights on someone without going through the legislative process. I have yet to see a government program that truly serves the people.
Remember – the government cannot give you something without taking it from someone else. There are plenty of examples of governments that do just that. I don’t want that for my children or myself so I will continue to work as a conservative to be a check and balance against the liberals who what to take away my freedoms in the name of civil liberties.
Dale Matteson, Morgan Hill
