Mr. Brandon,

Y'see, that's what I'm talking about right there:

"I assume that Mr. Swift has voluntarily foresworn any use of modern medicine"

As a matter of principle, conservatives want *less*, less intrusive government, as a matter of principle. As a matter of policy, that doesn't mean *no* government.

If you're responding to a philosophical point about principle - which was what Lewis was writing about - with "do you forswear city water and sewer, the CDC,...

"Why doesn't it occur to tenthers that the authors of the constitution were simply concerned about leaving a void in governance?"

Just guessing, but I'd start with the lack of any documentary evidence that this was the case...

" The idea wasn't to deny federal control, but to make sure that in the absence of federal action, states wouldn't be hamstrung, waiting for federal action, or crippled by the lack of federal action."

Well, it's certainly an explanation .

Patrick,

It would, indeed, not be difficult to find prior work by "Daves and Associates" - because for 21 years, Rob Daves ran the Strib's "Minnesota Poll", which was a national laughingstock.

For whatever reason, during the 21 years Daves ran the MNPoll, his election-eve polls on Gubernatorial, Senate and Presidential races *always* showed the GOP doing worse - usually much worse - than it ended up doing:

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Hey, Lambo,

Indefatigable? Perhaps.

But you've given the reader the half of my post that fits your narrative - "conservatives are teh bigot" (along with a link that doesn't point to my actual post).

http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=20364

I'm ambivalent about the constitutional amendment.

(Let's see if I've worded this obliquely enough to get past...