There’s a glaring hypocrisy in Curt Schilling’s failing video game venture, the one that Rhode Island state officials giddily backed to the tune of $75 million in loan guarantees, which seems to be a fancy financial term for taking $75 million in hard-earned taxpayer cash and tossing it in the Providence River. And that is this: Schilling spent no small amount of time in his career preaching the Republican mantra of smaller government and personal responsibility - until he needed government’s help.