"There is, in Bush's use of . . . Ideas, a certain ambiguity or confusion between the right to be free and the capacity to be free. The two are not quite the same."
The prevailing liberal doctrine traces individual rights to membership in various groups--racial, ethnic, gender, class-based, etc. Conservatives, by contrast, trace individual rights to human nature, to the essence of an individual as a human being.
The fight the Tea Party was willing to put up arose from this fact--that ObamaCare amounted to a colossal battle b/n two ways of govt, and it was the Tea Party and Pres. Obama who shared a clear understanding of the stakes; Republican leaders did not.
