As did I. Then again, perhaps the persons in question are not truly conservatives. Capitan does have a tendency to take the "CBS News" approach to historical documentation.
As in my two previous posts, I point out yet again the neo-reb proclivity for ad hominem attacks. When you wallow in the cesspool, you're going to end up dirty.
"All the News that Fits"/"Whatever Works", eh? A friend who recently joined her county Democrats just sent me a CNN story spinning furiously on Iraq and quoting GOP senators (Hagel, McCain, Lindsay Graham, Lugar, Kyl) on Iraq to try to sell the "Bush is Lying to Us" line. I replied to her that if she were genuinely interested in discussing it -- which I challenged, based on earlier conversations -- she could use some of her free long-distance cellular minutes to call me next weekend and chat it up. I don't think my phone will ring. The whole country is so split along political lines, it really is realistic to speak of two countries again, just as in the 1850's.
Of course, our Marxist historian and poly-sci friends have been vigorously promoting this.......I wonder to what end?
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By the way, my own cure for the "split" is to kick New England out of the Union, together with the east bank of the Hudson as high as the Fish Kill River. Let them join their socialist-meme pod-people pals in Canada.
And we get the western and northwestern provinces, of course, and all that Alberta natural gas and great BC coastline. And the northern archipelago, too, of course, west of Prince of Wales Island, and the Yukon and Nunavut.
Seems fair to me. We'd exile about 26,000,000 cranky, greedy liberals, and get about 12,000,000 relatively conservative Canadians in return -- including most of the ones who know how to mine gold, drill oil wells, and brew beer.
What could be a better or fairer deal?