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To: Mr. Silverback

No, you are redefining conservatism along the lines of your own brand. Many paleoconservatives opposed the war in Iraq, and many religious conservatives do not find the GOP sufficiently pro-life. I am not going to argue for her positions, whith many of which I disagree myself, in her absence, but I am familiar with her views and it would not occur to me to label them unconservative.


57 posted on 12/23/2005 7:38:26 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex
No, you are redefining conservatism along the lines of your own brand. Many paleoconservatives opposed the war in Iraq, and many religious conservatives do not find the GOP sufficiently pro-life.

Actually, you are doing the redefining, rewriting my statements to fit some misconception of yours. I said neither of those things, not in my conversation with you or anywhere else.

I did not say opposing the war was unconservative, nor do I believe it to be. Granted, I've been quite hard on the anti-war freepers, but that's because their arguments are dangerous and usually informed more by dislike of the neo-cons than by any actual paleoconservative principle. It is also not unconservative to consider the GOP to be insufficiently pro-life. But then, I never accused Askel of doing that. I accused her of portraying the President as a rabid supporter of abortion, and of equating U.S. military personnel and terrorists. She did both of those things, and that crap belongs on DU.

I'll ask again and add a question: If a freeper called herself a friend of police, but was adamant that Tookie Williams get an LAPD full honors funeral, would you consider that person a supporter of police? And if that person then turned around and accused those who disagreed of being anti-police, would you think they were following the conventions of civil and rational debate; would they belong here?

58 posted on 12/28/2005 6:22:36 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (I have come here to chew bubble gum and write taglines, and I'm all out of bubble gum.)
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