It’s not that surprising that the Republican candidates haven’t trotted out the F word yet. Two of the three leading candidates are divorced. So if they start talking about “family” they’ll be accused of hypocrisy.
But then who isn’t a hypocrite. It’s the homage that vice pays to virtue.
If the candidates aren’t willing to talk about family, Kay Hymowitz & W. Bradford Wilcox are. And to make it easy they boil the political importance of family down to four issues.
- Limited Government. “The foundation of limited government lies in strong, self-governing families.”
- Law and Order. It was 40 years ago that Daniel Patrick Moynihan pointed out that “crime is a marriage and fatherhood issue.”
- The American Dream. Our national “prosperity depends on strong families.” Simply put, married people earn more money than single people, and they save more.
- The Vote. Married people vote more than single people, and married people vote Republican.
As we like to say these days: The science is in on this. So how about it, candidates?
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