New House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is giving his party something new to aspire to — being “happy conservatives.”
In a recent interview with CBN News, McCarthy said Ronald Reagan’s vision is what drew him toward being a Republican, a switch away from his family of Demcrats.
McCarthy told CBN that he grew disenchanted with the Democrat’s worldview in the 1970s while listening to then-President Jimmy Carter.
“I was in elementary school or junior high and he [Jimmy Carter] put a sweater on and told me the best days of America were behind me and I had to accept it and turn my heater down,” he said.
That all changed for McCarthy when Reagan entered the scene.
“He’s a happy conservative and why is he happy? Because he knows that the conservative values gives greater liberty to the individual,” McCarthy told CBN News.
“I believe in being a happy conservative, that you’re happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.”
