Now in Power, Conservatives Free to Differ

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Now in Power, Conservatives Free to Differ

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 20, 2005; Page A07

With their Republican allies in control of the federal government, conservative intellectuals, activists and philanthropists battled this past week over popular culture, over President Bush's expansive foreign policies, and even over the legitimacy of God and faith in the formulation of social policy.

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The debate participants include some of the foremost intellectual figures in American conservatism, men and women whose ideas have helped fuel the GOP's rise to power. Now their focus is on where the conservative movement needs to go, whether it focuses on making government smaller and less intrusive or making it more active in fostering morality.


<snip>Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, took issue with those who would seek to use the power of government to curb what many others on the panel saw as a debasement of personal behavior and of the content of movies, television and music.

Instead, he argued, government should avoid regulating individual behavior as long as they are not "stealing their wallets or burning their houses down."
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