Is this your opus? Why does your home page have a quote from a banned/suspended freeper?
Republican is a Democrat who has been mugged.
We love freedom more than we love peace
For decades, a conservative ideology — a set of “correct” beliefs forming a lens through which one views reality — did not exist. The conservative movement, such as it was, contained former Communists and anti-Communists, free marketers and compassionists and private-sector welfarists; unionists (Ronald Reagan’s “hardhats”) and those driven by a commitment to the Taft-Hartley Law’s section 14-B; Burkeans, traditionalists, libertarians, religionists, and believers in living one’s life according to an individualized secular virtue; neo-con refugees from the liberal swamp. They coalesced around a set of views and values one generally had to embrace in order to have one’s claim of allegiance to the conservative flag accepted.
Just as conservatism evolved away from the isolationist, business-versus-labor model — leaving Pat Buchanan and his ilk floundering about in the political wilderness like beached whales — so too is conservatism evolving apace away from the small-government, libertarian model so dear to the hearts of Rush Limbaugh and his acolytes. Bush has recognized this and has parlayed it into two presidential terms. However, if movement conservatives start an ideological war withing the GOP, everything which Ronald Reagan and those who believe as he did is in danger of being wrecked. The my-way-or-the-highway conservatives are fast becoming the mirror images of the lunatic-fringe Democrats from moveon.org. If the GOP is driven to the right, the Reagan Democrats who are socially conservative but fiscally liberal will be alienated and will rejoin the Democrats. quidnunc
No, my opus is written in prose on a different forum. The first quote I read on FR and it was not attributed. It appealed to my sense of humor. The second quote was one I read somewhere I can't remember (It's all the gray hair). It appealed to the poet.
And one of the worst ex-freepers at understanding Reagan, republicanism, and conservativism.