What are the left’s principles? Maybe it’s because I have such a highly-developed conservative mind that I have trouble relating to the mommy-party way, but I’m at a serious loss here.

For example, I can come up with a few conservative principles: self-determination, economic freedom, the protection of life.

But when it comes to liberal principles, what do they have?

They certainly aren’t all about freedom. Liberals cry and cry about a woman’s “right to choose,” but yet feel the need to regulate the juice out of you when it comes to global warming/climate change. If, as leftist Al Gore claims, global warming is a moral issue, why don’t liberals also want to restrict abortion, clearly a moral issue and something the likes of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton claim to want to see less of?

They certainly aren’t all about life. Liberals are generally anti-war and anti-capital punishment. What about fetuses, Terry Schiavos, and the elderly? Liberals want to keep abortion legal, they wanted Schiavo’s plug pulled, and in the recent health care bill, they want to teach old people about how to die. I don’t see a principle there; in fact, liberals seem to only care about life issues when the person being attacked is a criminal or an Iraqi. Why not everyone?

They claim to be pro-education, supporting an “army of teachers” (Obama’s words) and low student-to-teacher ratios. But education in America stinks thanks to these policies. Either liberals don’t really care about education, or they’re ignorant.

Or both.

They claim to be for the “little man,” but do nothing but condescend to him. You’d think conservatism would be lauded for its support of the “little man” and his potential in a free market society, but liberals horde this mantle for themselves, as if unions, minimum wage, and corporate taxes ultimately help the little man. Conservatism’s message to the little man? “You are little, but you can achieve much.” Liberalism’s message to the little man? “You need help.”

Some might point to the liberal emphasis on spreading the wealth and trickle-up economic theory as showing that they have more economic compassion than conservatives, and that this economic compassion is a liberal principle. Listen, compassion is good. But when you turn it into a government operation, you miss the point.