{"id":39553,"date":"2017-02-03T11:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39553"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T18:43:58","slug":"although-may-not-realize-lds-church-members-will-sorely-miss-brother-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/although-may-not-realize-lds-church-members-will-sorely-miss-brother-reid.html","title":{"rendered":"“Although they may not realize it, LDS Church members will sorely miss Brother Reid”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Where<\/a>
The Senate side of the United States Capitol \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Once more, to preempt certain responses, I stress that I\u2019m a life-long conservative with strong libertarian leanings (especially on economic issues). \u00a0 And I also want to point out, in disagreement with Richard Davis, that I\u2019m aware of no actions by Orrin Hatch or Jason Chaffetz that are even\u00a0remotely<\/em> as nakedly partisan and ethically questionable as Senator Reid\u2019s baseless lie about Mitt Romney\u2019s taxes<\/a>. \u00a0That was a low point for him, and I can see no justification for it.<\/p>\n

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That said, I nonetheless believe that Professor Davis makes a valid point here:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865672292\/Although-they-may-not-realize-it-LDS-Church-members-will-sorely-miss-Brother-Reid.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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The attacks may now begin!<\/p>\n

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Please, though, don\u2019t waste my time by calling me a liberal or a leftist.<\/p>\n

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To repeat some points that I\u2019ve made before: \u00a0I voted for Ronald Reagan in every primary and November election that I could. \u00a0At age eleven, I even pulled the lever for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election when my brother took me with him into the polling booth. \u00a0(My parents voted for Lyndon Johnson.) \u00a0I\u2019ve subscribed to National Review<\/em> since I was thirteen, with only a few exceptions when I was living overseas (including part of my mission). \u00a0While still an undergraduate, I helped to host William F. Buckley Jr. at BYU, won two essay prizes from the Foundation for Economic Education<\/a>, and was an invited participant\u00a0in a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society<\/a> in St. Andrews, Scotland, where, among others, I met people like the Nobel laureate free market economists Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, James Buchanan, and George Stigler. \u00a0I strongly support the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. \u00a0I joined with a friend to talk with Mike Lee over lunch about the possibility of his running for the United States Senate. \u00a0I\u2019ve spoken at least three times at the huge annual Freedom Fest<\/a>\u00a0libertarian meeting in Las Vegas. \u00a0And so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

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So, again, don\u2019t bother trying to portray me as a leftist or a liberal. \u00a0Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Once more, to preempt certain responses, I stress that I\u2019m a life-long conservative with strong libertarian leanings (especially on economic issues). \u00a0 And I also want to point out, in disagreement with Richard Davis, that I\u2019m aware of no actions by Orrin Hatch or Jason Chaffetz that are even\u00a0remotely as nakedly partisan and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"Although they may not realize it, LDS Church members will sorely miss Brother Reid"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    Once more, to preempt certain responses, I stress that I'm a life-long conservative with strong libertarian leanings (especially on economic\" \/>\n<meta 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