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Thoughts on the “specter” of which party should worry us more: If you ask a dedicated liberal why he has such fear and loathing of the Christian Right, he’ll usually or at least eventually, tell you it is because they want to tell him what to do and dictate their values to him and others who don’t share their religious zeal.

As a Jewish conservative, I can hardly be described as part of the Christian Right, nor do I always share some of the same socially conservative views. In my own experience, there has never been any contest as to which group has been more tolerant of my rights to disagree, but let’s use the current Democrat monopoly of power in federal and local government as an informal lab experiment. Based on past results and future “earnings,” which party has been and is likely to be in the future, a better caretaker of individual freedom and views with which they disagree?

In the first 100 days of our current one-party rule, we have seen unrestrained zeal to control as much of the private sector as possible, from banks and auto makers to the health care industry and even credit card companies. We’ve known there was a dedicated idealogy to rob from those who have earned their assets and give them to those who haven’t, in the name of “fairness,” but never have we seen it on such vivid display. Add to that, a desire to control and regulate conservative talk radio and the internet, once again in the name of fairness, and a dedicated desire to “rework” the Second Amendment in order to register and eventually take away guns from law abiding citizens so they cannot defend themselves from criminals or a tyrannical government.

For a garnish, we should also include the unapologetic bigotry toward anyone who disagrees with gay marriage, and a press that fawns over Democrats while showing unrelenting hatred toward those who oppose their policies—-is there any contest as to which party is a greater threat to individual freedom and liberty?