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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Is limited government passe?

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Conservatives worried, plot path back from big spending

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  • Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain speaks at a "Road to Victory" campaign rally Saturday at the Sean T. Connaughton Community Plaza in Woodbridge.
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama addresses an audience Friday at a rally in the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke.
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. John McCain's senior economic adviser, says excessive spending during the Bush presidency has "left a terrible legacy" for the Republican Party.

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By Jon Ward

BIG GOVERNMENT SERIES/Last of three parts: The future of limited-government conservativism

President Bush stood in front of several thousand Republican donors in downtown Washington in mid-June and blasted the Democrats for breaking promises to rein in government spending.

"When the Democrats campaigned in 2006, they promised fiscal responsibility," Mr. Bush said.

The president told the audience that if they wanted to avoid "a bigger tax bill and bigger government," they should work hard to help elect Sen. John McCain as president.

Yet even Mr. McCain's top aides are lamenting the political headwinds they are fighting because of the Republican Party's excessive spending during the Bush presidency.

"It's left a terrible legacy for the party," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the Arizona senator's senior economic adviser, in an interview.

Revisit parts I and II here:

Part II MONDAY: • Pentagon spending growth outpaces auditors

Part I SUNDAY: • Big government gets bigger

The greater concern for some conservatives, however, beyond this election cycle, is that America may no longer care about the government's size, scope and role.

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