Republicans are not really for small government despite all of their caterwauling to the contrary.
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They want small government, strong national defense and an emphasis on individual liberties and accountability.
Libertarians and small government groups have spent millions of dollars to get those initiatives on the ballots.
Others are convinced the party must stress basic conservative principles, such as small government and lower taxes.
This would seem to contradict the tea party's claim that it's all about fiscal prudence and small government.
He believes fervently in small government but, unlike Norquist, opposes spending subsidies and tax subsidies with equal passion.
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It has lost track of what it used to stand for: small government, a disciplined fiscal policy, integrity.
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Kato's views advocating small government and deregulation are more in line with those of high-tech industries competing globally.
Every time politicians who support small government suggest eliminating their subsidies, it is a publicity bonanza for their fund-raising.
Big-government conservatives retort that there is only a limited constituency for small government.
So much for Mr Howard's claim to be a champion of small government.
His vision of small government and low taxes remains the dominant vision today.
His message of low taxes, small government and tougher treatment of criminals has won him support everywhere except Quebec.
But as our special report this week explains, Texas also clearly offers a different model, based on small government.
For Perry, a small government guy, that may be a good thing since it would drive even deeper spending cuts.
The GOP, by contrast, must somehow satisfy the low-tax, small government demands of its activist base without alienating independent voters.
Of course, not unlike a tea-party Republican making the case for small government, Ms Warren paints in over-broad, simplifying strokes.
It would be a genuine contest between big government liberalism and small government conservatism: Clinton's internationalism and support for welfare programs vs.
Republicans have united behind a narrative of austerity and small government, and the best Democrats can do is praise the "historic cuts".
This should not be an issue about big government versus small government.
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And in the case of the Republicans, that would be low taxes, small government, not spending to increase the size of the deficit.
Everyone remembers Ronald Reagan as a small government champion, but many conveniently forget that he presided over a significant expansion in government spending.
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And getting that balance right has less to do with big government or small government than it has to do with smart government.
Second, how can a small government establishment that fully embraced the message of the 2010 elections support a deal that wholly ignores that message?
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At the moment, that candidate is Herman Cain: business executive, African-American Baptist preacher and gospel singer and believer in small government and individual responsibility.
Of course, there really are very real philosophical differences between small government advocates like Ron Paul and his civil libertarian colleagues on the left.
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Yet even to believers in small government, like this newspaper, there are good reasons for letting taxes take at least some of the strain.
Here my Hoover Institution colleague Peter Berkowitz rightly points out that conservatives have mistakenly allowed the debate to be about big versus small government.
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