Mitt Romney and the Republicans have built a reputation – a false reputation that is – fighting for “small government.” They often pride themselves in saying they want government “out of our lives.”
But based on the recent contraception fight and the Republican’s war on women, it seems that what these Republicans mean is government should only stay out of our lives if that government is a Democratic government.
While campaigning for President in 2007, Mitt Romney proved this point perfectly when he told an audience that when he becomes president all new computers would be built with a pornography filter on them. Can you imagine the “big government” outcry if a Democratic president had said this? We would have heard calls of communism and “too much regulation” on the private market if this was said by a non-Republican.
What’s next for the “small government” Romney, a government-run media like North Korea or China, where what we see and hear is dictated by a Romney administration?
