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Conservativism is mostly about smaller government.

Taking less of my money, yes, in part, but also a government limited in scope to those things explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.

It seems like you think, and a good number of freepers think, that Conservative = what you like.

Banning transfats = ridiculous liberalism
Banning marijuana = good conservativism

Your version of conservativism really doesn’t sell too well except to those who agree with you on everything.

If I remember correctly, Ronaldus Maximus took the nation by storm in two consecutive elections. In 1984, he showed pity on Mondale by canceling a campaign trip to Minnesota on the Saturday and Sunday right before the election allowing Mondale to take Minnesota by 1/2%. All it took was four years of cowardly foreign policy by Jimmuh Hemmorhoid contrasted with four years of Reagan in power to produce the 1984 result. PaleoPaulie struggles to get 10% in GOP primaries and gets much of his vote from the malignant antiAmerican peace creep vote.

So, ummmm, tell me again how well dishonest, fraudulent, antiAmerican, antimilitary, do nothing on abortion, do nothing to defend marriage and stuff the fedbudget with Galveston pork plays nationally masquerading as "conservatism?"

The minigovernment crowd has a place in the conservative movement but it is hardly as senior partner. Slashing taxes and spending, eliminating bureaucrats, turning BATF into a convenience store, etc., are good but they do not constitute all or even most of conservatism. Accept social and military conservatism or pay higher taxes when most conservatives stay home on election day, bored silly by endless chewing on such compelling topics as the Federal Reserve. Those are your choices. We are not the soulless creatures that call themselves Brit Tories. We have an issue tapestry and not just plain jane muslin.