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DAVID BOAZ: The boys who cried ?racist.? Paul Krugman can?t understand why people would oppose?

By Glenn Reynolds

DAVID BOAZ: The boys who cried “racist.”

Paul Krugman can?t understand why people would oppose government control of health care ? or skyrocketing deficits, or a federal takeover of education, energy, and finance along with health care ? unless they?re driven by racism. But he?s not the only one who sees racists under every bed. . . . It cannot be the case that every parody of a president who happens to be black is racist. And it is not good for democracy to try to counter every opposing argument with such a blood libel. The good news for advocates of limited government is that our opponents are displaying a striking lack of confidence in the actual arguments for their proposals. If they thought they could win a debate on nationalizing health care, or running trillion-dollar deficits, they wouldn?t need to reach for such smears.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 08, 2009 (boomark / email).