Ideology-free politics not only for liberals

Gene Edward Veith wrote a very convincing article discussing the new liberalism with its lack of ideology. Read it...its solid and makes some good point.

I would like to extend his arguments, however, to conservatives, especially in the now and present race for the presidency. Liberals are not the only ones that seem to be lacking in ideology. The current race for the GOP ticket seems to greatly lack its own ideology. The front two runners are a mormon and a pro-choice candidate. I have already read many arguments for Christians supporting both. The argument for supporting a mormon president is that we are not voting for pastor but rather the president of the country. Read Olasky's comments in one his last articles (sorry for the vagueness on that one) in which he wonders aloud whether some of Romney's flip-flop is due to his mormonism. The argument for support of the pro-choice (and I shudder at this logic) is that voting for Giuliani will decrease the number of abortions by 100,000 compared to the number of abortions if Clinton were elected. Yes, each of those 100,000 lives are one more life saved, but listen to the argument. We are rationalizing ourselves to choose truly the "lesser of two evils." Where are the ideologies we once held? Where is the rationale to vote for someone with principle, someone that will bring change and match the ideologies as presented by our founding fathers?

With that I present Ron Paul. Many will not support him because there is no chance he will be voted in. Many do not want to throw away their vote. But whatever happened to us being a people of principle? Maybe I'm just not old enough yet to lose some of my ideology...maybe my experience in this world hasn't been chiseled away enough to realize that ideologies are nice yet unrealistic in life.

I just shudder at the ideologies my children will have to give up when we compare the ones we sacrifice today. It makes you see a world much presented in V for Vendetta is more reality than we would like to admit.