[central_va]

His reputation as a RINO is due to social issues entirely.

A socially LIEberal country will never, can never, have a conservative fiscal policy. To think otherwise is mere placation of the socialist and wishful thinking. It is a losers hand.

[lentulusgracchus]

A socially LIEberal country will never, can never, have a conservative fiscal policy.

I've never, myself, really understood the locution "economic conservative" except as an attempt to gull and deceive.

Socially liberal is liberal; and all the rest is just arithmetic.

An "economic conservative" is a liberal who knows how to count. A "Neoconservative" is a liberal who knows that being shot dead by a Manchu or Siberian soldier is, as the lame teacher said, "baaaahd, 'ngkay?"

"Economic conservative" means "I don't mind selling my soul and my countrymen down the river, but I know how to get a good price!"

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