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?
Ah, OK. Askel would say the darndest things. I see your point. Do you see mine? I cannot defend every post she made, but I can vouch for her character and patriotism. Hers is not two-faced mendacity of the left, but a heartfelt hyperbole coming from the paleocon right. She deserves to be reinstated, -- if of course, she wants to.