I don't understand Republicans

Here's why:

I was talking to some the other evening, and they seem to have such contradictory beliefs:

1. GPS watches and Ipod trackers are bad - some skeez could potentially hack his way onto the internet and find exactly where you were running - how bad is that????

2. I fully support the Patriot act. Umm, so it's ok if people in the government are all up in your business? But the moment it's an individual, that's a bad thing.

First Rebuttals:
a. There are individuals in the government. Like the ones that leaked the identity of the CIA agent in the Middle East and essentially forced her into early retirement.
b. This point is just me shaking my head in dismay. I don't know. Are Republicans just not private people? Do they not care if their private business remains their own private business? Myself, I don't think it's anyone's business at all what I do in my spare time. What I spend money on. What I do in my own home. Is this distrust in big government something that separates Democrats from Republicans? Because I thought it was the other way around, that Democrats trusted in big government. I don't know.

"He still believes in his heart that people are honest and good," the former manager said about Kenny. "And he's wrong."