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Conservative Hypocrisy: 65% of Right-Wing Bloggers Oppose Free Trade

Right-wing blogger David Kopel recently took a poll that asked:Question 2 was "Should Congress repeal the trade embargo on Cuba this year?" One hundred percent on the Left thought so, as 35 percent on the right. I voted No, with the explanation "Repeal if and only if repeal advocates can present a plan in which repeal can help lead to the destruction of the Castro tyranny, and the Obama administration is willing to implement the plan." So sixty-five percent of right-wing bloggers oppose free trade.  Indeed, 65% of right-wing bloggers oppose any trade at all.  What is their explanation for this view?  How do they explain their opposition to any trade at all when free trade (or free trade lite, i.e., tariffs) is a tenant of conservative thinking?  There is no intellectual consistency or integrity...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).